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scabbard

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"Sword sheath"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈskæb.əd/Part of speech nounSorted aabbcdrsStarts with SEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet

Word origin

From Middle English scabard, scauberde, scauberk, scauberke, from Anglo-Norman eschaubert, escalberc, of Germanic origin, perhaps from Frankish *skarberg (“sheath”, literally “blade-protection”), from Proto-Germanic *skēriz (“blade, scissors”) + *bergaz (“shelter, protection, refuge”). See also hauberk.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Suddenly he scabbarded his sabre.

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