It is at the end of the 19th century that it really began to be used with the meaning of 'deliberately and maliciously destroying property' or 'working slower'. Here it is defined mainly as 'making sabots, sabot maker'. The word sabotage is found in 1873–1874 in the Dictionnaire de la langue française of Émile Littré. In it the literal definition is to 'make noise with sabots' as well as 'bungle, jostle, hustle, haste'. One of the first appearances of saboter and saboteur in French literature is in the Dictionnaire du Bas-Langage ou manières de parler usitées parmi le peuple of d'Hautel, edited in 1808. A popular but incorrect account of the origin of the term's present meaning is the story that poor workers in France would throw a wooden sabot into the machines to disrupt production. The English word derives from the French word saboter, meaning to "bungle, botch, wreck or sabotage" it was originally used to refer to labour disputes, in which workers wearing wooden shoes called sabots interrupted production through different means. 4.1 Value of simple sabotage in wartime.
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