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What is a sabot?

What is a sabot? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A wooden shoe.
  2. A carrier around projectile(s) in firearms, cannons and artillery which holds the projectile in precision within the barrel
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The 12-gauge.50-caliber slug weighs in at 385 grains and is nestled in a sabot.
The Platinum Tip bullet also will be offered in a muzzleloading component, as a 260-grain bullet packaged with a sabot.
Modern guns will use a sabot or a pistol bullet, which come pre-packaged.
During the First World War it housed Belgian refugees, who made sabot clogs in the workshop of Arthur Simpson, renowned furniture designer and wood-carver.
Some German machine guns stood their ground in the wood of sabot and contributed to the resistance of the enemy.
The round shot should be sewed up in canvas or felt, strapped to a sabot, or snaked between two grommet-wads.

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