scabbard

Noun

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Noun (1)

  1. a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonetType of sheath
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Scab′bard noun

Origin: OE. scaubert, scauberk, OF. escaubers, escauberz, pl., scabbards, probably of German or Scan. origin; cf. Icel. skālpr scabbard, and G. bergen to conceal. Cf. Hauberk.

The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath.

Nor in thy scabbard sheathe that famous blade.— Edward Fairfax

Scabbard fish Zoology, a long, compressed, silver-colored taenioid fish (Lepidopus argyreus syn. Lepidopus caudatus), found on the European coasts, and more abundantly about New Zealand, where it is called frostfish and considered an excellent food fish.

Scab′bard transitive verb

To put in a scabbard.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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