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Sheath

//ʃiːθ// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A holster for a sword; a scabbard.
  2. 2
    a dress suitable for formal occasions wordnet
  3. 3
    Anything that has a similar shape to a scabbard that is used to hold an object that is longer than it is wide. broadly
  4. 4
    a protective covering (as for a knife or sword) wordnet
  5. 5
    The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a branch or stem, as in grasses.
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  1. 6
    an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part wordnet
  2. 7
    The insulating outer cover of an electrical cable.
  3. 8
    One of the elytra of an insect.
  4. 9
    A tight-fitting dress.
  5. 10
    The foreskin of certain animals (for example, dogs and horses).
  6. 11
    A condom. British, informal
Verb
  1. 1
    Uncommon spelling of sheathe. alt-of, uncommon

    "Nay, neuer beare me hence, diſpatch me heere: / Here ſheath thy Sword, Ile pardon thee my death: [...]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English sheth, shethe (“holder for a sword, knife, etc., scabbard, sheath”) [and other forms], from Old English sċēaþ (“sheath”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz (“sheath; covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”) (possibly from the notion of a split stick with a sword inserted). The English word is cognate with Danish skede, Dutch schede, Icelandic skeið, German Scheide, Low German scheed, Norwegian skjede.

Etymology 2

A variant of sheathe.

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