249: sabotage Aug 14, 2015

The first saboteurs, the most violent of whom were French, were angry about machines stealing jobs away from people. What it was that they did to break the machines was to throw shoes into them; specifically the saboteurs threw sabots–a kind of wooden shoe, into the machines–thereby giving it the name of 'sabotage'.
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