Hoister vs Scabbard - What's the difference?
hoister | scabbard |
One who, or that which, hoists.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
(senseid) The sheath of a sword.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
To put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.
* Suddenly he scabbarded his sabre.
As nouns the difference between hoister and scabbard
is that hoister is one who, or that which, hoists while scabbard is (sheath) The sheath of a sword.As a verb scabbard is
to put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.hoister
English
Noun
(en noun)- putting one foot into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip itself, the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom.
scabbard
English
(wikipedia scabbard)Noun
(en noun)- 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.