scabbard

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈskæb.əd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskæb.ɚd/
• Hyphenation: scab‧bard

scabbard (plural scabbards)

1. The sheath of a sword.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     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.

scabbard (third-person singular simple present scabbards, present participle scabbarding, simple past and past participle scabbarded)

1. To put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.
   • Suddenly he scabbarded his sabre.

• “scabbard” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.