SCABBARD


Meaning of SCABBARD in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A few of the mounts shifted their feet; here and there a rider slid his sword back and forth in its scabbard .

Chun had put his sword back into the scabbard and turned to a political solution.

Down the line, swords hissed out of oiled scabbards.

He hefted the dead man's sword, then strapped the scabbard to his waist, over his heavy furs.

He held both of them for a moment before turning to Ian and presenting him with a sword drawn from its scabbard .

He slipped his knife into its scabbard .

His straight heavy sword hung in a gilded scabbard by his royal blue saddle-cloth that was embroidered with the King's cipher.

McGann, smooth as a velvet scabbard .

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