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Scabbard trim
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chape
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Word definitions for chape in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chape \Chape\, n. [F., a churchman's cope, a cover, a chape, fr. L. cappa. See Cap .] The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap. The ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) The piece by which an object is attached to something, such as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap. 2 (context archaic English) The transverse guard of a sword ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chape has had various meanings in English, but the predominant one is a protective fitting at the bottom of a scabbard or sheath for a sword or dagger (10 in the diagram). Historic blade weapons often had leather scabbards with metal fittings at either ...
Usage examples of chape.
I noticed two white Chapes at the edge of the forest, and I dare go no farther tonight!
Scabbards were of wood, covered in leather and with metal chapes and mouths, worn slung from a saber-tache attached to the left side of the belt.
A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.
The chape of his quiver touched the ground and the embroidered lid caught him in the ribs.
Its weight pulled his hips out of alignment and the chape protecting the bottom of the scabbard regularly knocked against his calf as he walked.
He drew the sword, gripping the hilt in one hand and the chape of the simple, sturdy scabbard in the other.
Le chevalier perforce broke off as his mount, stung by a forceful dig in the flank by the dull point of the metal chape of Timoteo's sword sheath, reared and essayed to bolt.
Such a power of bir-r-ds, would knock down 'praties, in a wonderful degree, and make even butthermilk chape and plenthiful.
She ran one finger down Avoic's second-best scabbard, which was chaped in tarnished silver and inlaid with spirals and interlaced wolves.
Ful fressh and newe hir geere apiked was, Hir knyves were chaped noght with bras, But al with silver wroght ful clene and weel, Hir girdles and hir pouches everydeel.
Calling out to her to enter, she immediately turned back to the bed chapes, this time poking at the underside of them, trying to pop the key out.