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Webster 1913 Edition
Scabbard
Scab′bard
,Noun.
[OE.
scaubert
, scauberk
, OF. escaubers
, escauberz
, pl., scabbards, probably of German or Scan. origin; cf. Icel. skālpr
scabbard, and G. bergen
to conceal. Cf. Hauberk
.] The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath.
Nor in thy
scabbard
sheathe that famous blade. Fairfax.
Scabbard fish
(Zool.)
, a long, compressed, silver-colored taenioid fish (
Lepidopus argyreus
syn. Lepidopus caudatus
), found on the European coasts, and more abundantly about New Zealand, where it is called frostfish
and considered an excellent food fish.Scab′bard
,Verb.
T.
To put in a scabbard.
Webster 1828 Edition
Scabbard
SCAB'BARD
,Noun.
SCAB'BARD
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
scabbard
scabbard
English
Bowie knife and sheath
Noun
scabbard (plural scabbards)
- 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.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
Translations
the sheath of a sword
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Verb
scabbard (third-person singular simple present scabbards, present participle scabbarding, simple past and past participle scabbarded)
- To put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.
- Suddenly he scabbarded his sabre.
References
- “scabbard” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).