What does scabbard mean?

Definitions for scabbard
ˈskæb ərdscab·bard

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. scabbardnoun

    a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet

Wiktionary

  1. scabbardnoun

    The sheath of a sword.

  2. Etymology: From escalberc, of origin. See also hauberk

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Scabbardnoun

    Etymology: schap, German. Junius.

    Enter fortune’s gate,
    Nor in thy scabbard sheath that famous blade,
    ’Till settled be thy kingdom and estate. Edward Fairfax.

    What eyes! how keen their glances! you do well to keep ’em veil’d: they are too sharp to be trusted out o’ th’ scabbard. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.

Wikipedia

  1. Scabbard

    A scabbard is a sheath for holding a sword, knife, or other large blade. As well, rifles may be stored in a scabbard by horse riders. Military cavalry and cowboys had scabbards for their saddle ring carbine rifles and lever-action rifles on their horses for storage and protection. Scabbards have been made of many materials over the millennia, including leather, wood, and metals such as brass or steel. Most commonly, sword scabbards were worn suspended from a sword belt or shoulder belt called a baldric.

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  1. scabbard

    A scabbard is a sheath for the blade of a sword or dagger, typically made of leather or metal. It is used not only to protect the blade, but also to allow safe handling and storage of the weapon.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scabbardnoun

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

  2. Scabbardverb

    to put in a scabbard

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

Wikidata

  1. Scabbard

    A scabbard is a sheath for holding a sword, knife, or other large blade. Scabbards have been made of many materials over the millennia, including leather, wood, and metals such as brass or steel.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Scabbard

    skab′ard, n. the case in which the blade of a sword is kept: a sheath.—v.t. to provide with a sheath.—n. Scabb′ard-fish, a fish of the family Lepidopodidæ. [M. E. scauberk, prob. an assumed O. Fr. escauberc—Old High Ger. scala, a scale, bergan, to protect.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. scabbard

    Is the sheath for a sword or bayonet, at once to render the weapon harmless and to protect it from damp. It was usually made of black leather, tipped, mouthed, and ringed with metal, but is now generally made of bronzed steel. The cavalry wear scabbards of polished steel. These better sustain the friction against the horses’ accoutrements, but are objectionable from their noisiness, and the consequent impossibility of surprising an enemy. The sword-scabbard is suspended to the belt by two rings; the bayonet-scabbard hooks into a frog in connection with the waist-belt.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scabbard in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scabbard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of scabbard in a Sentence

  1. Antione De Riveral:

    The sword of justice has no scabbard.

  2. Francis Quarles:

    Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is like thy sword in thy scabbard; if vented, the sword is in another?s hand.* If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

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