Definitions for scabbard

scabbard scab·bard

Spelling: [skab-erd]
IPA: /ˈskæb ərd/

Scabbard is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 191 anagrams from letters in scabbard (aabbcdrs).

Definitions for scabbard

noun

  1. a sheath for a sword or the like.

verb (used with object)

  1. to put into a scabbard; sheathe.

Origin of scabbard

1250-1300; Middle English scalburde, scauberge (compare Anglo-French escauberz, escauberge, Medieval Latin escauberca) ≪ dissimilated variant of Old High German *skārberga sword-protection. S

Examples for scabbard

Now, if the sword had never been drawn from the scabbard, how was that to be known to the writer?'

So each thrust his sword back into the scabbard and entered the pantry.

The last thing I did was to feel if my revolver were handy and my sword loose in the scabbard.

He would not have it in the scabbard, and when I laid it naked in his hand he kissed the hilt.

It was with rust almost as dark a brown as the scabbard that infolded it.

I'll away with the scabbard, and sheathe my sword in the bosom of tyranny.

Obediently he wheeled to the left, and I caught the swish of his sword as it left the scabbard.

Whenever an injustice occurred, Hitchens would declare, “The pen of the Hitch will flash from its scabbard.”

Reid took it, silent and unmoved, shoved it into his scabbard, walked away.

Once used they can never be fitted back into the scabbard again.'

Word Value for scabbard
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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