sabred

If a thousand monks got sabred, or lanced, they'd be martyrs.

A sabred Procession has nothing for it but to explode, along what streets, alleys, Tuileries Avenues it finds; and disappear.

The slash-and-run tactics of the clans of the Algars left heaps of sabred dead in their wake as they darted in and out of the milling confusion of terrified Murgos.

(In the great Waterloo scene, for instance, Stendhal's "sabrer" becomes "cut down," which is better and faster than Margaret Mauldon's long-winded "killed by a saber-cut" in the 1997 Oxford Classics version and yet more natural than Scott-Moncrieff's "sabred." )