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Scabbard

//ˈskæb.əd// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The sheath of a sword.

    "I had had to discard my rifle before I commenced the rapid descent of the cliff, so that now I was armed only with a hunting knife, and this I whipped from its scabbard as Kho leaped toward me."

  2. 2
    a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.

    "Suddenly he scabbarded his sabre."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English scabard, scauberde, scauberk, scauberke, from Anglo-Norman eschaubert, escalberc, of Germanic origin, perhaps from Frankish *skarberg (“sheath”, literally “blade-protection”), from Proto-Germanic *skēriz (“blade, scissors”) + *bergaz (“shelter, protection, refuge”). See also hauberk.

Etymology 2

From Middle English scabard, scauberde, scauberk, scauberke, from Anglo-Norman eschaubert, escalberc, of Germanic origin, perhaps from Frankish *skarberg (“sheath”, literally “blade-protection”), from Proto-Germanic *skēriz (“blade, scissors”) + *bergaz (“shelter, protection, refuge”). See also hauberk.

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