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scabbard

[skab-erd] / ˈskæb ərd /


NOUN
sheath
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A stunning jeweled dagger hilt and scabbard from Jahangir’s reign incorporate more than 2,000 diamonds, rubies and emeralds set in an intricate pattern in gold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Flashing his club as a sword, he targeted the hole as the bull and completed the routine by wiping the imagined blood off the blade and returning it to an invisible scabbard with a flourish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024

The sword is in a scabbard covered with 2,600 pearls and the ceremony is a symbolic show of mutual respect between two historical powerbases, the monarchy and the City of London.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2023

Oftentimes, a kirpan is blunt and even sewn into its sheath or scabbard.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2022

A long leather scabbard is expertly tooled with the initials R. F.: the sheath for the machete Ronald Franz gave McCandless when he left Salton City.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Swords, scabbards, armor — weaponry and objects related to combat are plentiful in the show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

He also found worked wood in an adjacent niche that turned out to be parts of the swords' scabbards.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2023

"This is a unique time capsule, whereby fragments of scrolls, coins from the Jewish Revolt, leather sandals, and now even swords in their scabbards, sharp as if they had only just been hidden away today."

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2023

A waiter entered the room carrying eight alarming-looking knives, sheathed in wooden scabbards decorated with mother-of-pearl inlays.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 11, 2018

In the pasturage along the road the wild oat heads were just clearing their scabbards.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck




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