in one of the Star Trek movies, one of the characters explains the origin of the word 'sabotage' as, basically, Dutch workers protesting automation by flinging their woooden shoes (sabot) into the machinery to foul it up. so, when i ran into the word 'cabotage', i was so happy, and thought our language so wonderful to actually have a word to name the act of flinging cabbage into machinery. but i'm wrong. that's not what it means at all.