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sheath

noun as in case

noun as in covering

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Prosecutor Tom Storey KC said a police search of Parslow's flat in Bromyard Terrace, Worcester, led to the recovery of a second knife in a sheath, an axe, a metal baseball bat, a red armband bearing a swastika, a Nazi-era medallion and copies of Mein Kampf.

From BBC

The Tony Award-winning theater actor — parts in “Into the Woods,” “Waitress,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Hello, Dolly!” were among his starring roles — died Monday of an aggressive form of cancer known as metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, which he was diagnosed with in July.

Smith, however, left behind the knife, a knife sheath and the audio recorder covered in DNA that would implicate him in the murder.

The mattress was wrapped in a strange institutional rubbery plastic sheath, but that wouldn't defeat me.

From Salon

However, EBV infection has been linked to several diseases, including MS: an incurable, chronic autoimmune disease that causes the body's immune system to attack the myelin sheath of neurons in the brain and nervous system.

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