Sputcheon vs Putcheon - What's the difference?
sputcheon | putcheon |
metal lining of a scabbard's mouth
* {{quote-book
, year = 1852
, first = Robert
, last = Burn
, title = A naval and military technical dictionary of the French language
, edition = 2nd
, publisher = John Murray
, location = London
, page = 37
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=HdsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA37
, section = keyword BATTE
, passage = — de la cuvette , sputcheon of the mouth-piece of a sword-scabbard, or that part which retains the wooden scabbard.
}}
* {{quote-journal
, date = 1886-06-03
, title = Swords and Sword Making at Solingen, Germany
, journal = The American Engineer
, volume = 11
, issue = 22
, page = 223
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=yVkiAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA223&dq=sputcheon
, passage = They are as follows: The manufacture of the blade, 32 operations; scabbard, 30; scabbard mouthpiece with sputcheon , 32
}}
* {{quote-web
, year = 2005
, title = Lost Words: S-Z
, site = The Phrontistery
, first = Stephen
, last = Chrisomalis
, passage = The blade rang against the sputcheon as he drew it, eliminating the element of surprise.
, accessdate = 2011-12-14
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2006
, title =
, first = Charles
, last = Frazier
, authorlink = Charles Frazier
, publisher = Grove
, location = New York
, isbn = 9780802165046
, lccn = 97000275
, id =
, page = 345
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=FMeUuiFfZacC&pg=PA345&dq=sputcheon
, passage = She held her mouth slitted open in anguish so that in Inman's mind it resembled the sputcheon to a sword scabbard.
}}