Scabbard vs Sheathe - What's the difference?
scabbard | sheathe |
(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.
To put something, such as a knife, into a sheath
To encase something with a protective covering
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As verbs the difference between scabbard and sheathe
is that scabbard is to put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard while sheathe is to put something, such as a knife, into a sheath.As a noun scabbard
is (senseid) the sheath of a sword.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.