scabbard

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈskæb.əd/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈskæb.ɚd/

Noun

scabbard (plural scabbards)

1. The sheath of a sword.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     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.

Translations

• French: fourreau
• German: Schwertscheide, Scheide
• Italian: fodero, guaina
• Portuguese: bainha
• Russian: но́жны
• Spanish: vaina

Verb

scabbard (scabbards, present participle scabbarding; past and past participle scabbarded)

1. To put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.

   Suddenly he scabbarded his sabre.

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