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Putting (sword) back in scabbard
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sheathing
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior [syn: overlay , overlayer ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sheathing \Sheath"ing\, p. pr. & a. from Sheathe . Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Something that wraps around or surrounds something, as a sheath encases its blade. vb. (present participle of sheathe English)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The handle consists of bronze sheathing over a lead core.
Usage examples of sheathing.
Sheathing Fleam, Rol let his hands run across the stone, feeling for cracks and handholds.
Unexpectedly the fabric gave a little and Lome bobbed forward, bringing the flame in contact with the material sheathing Ben.
He would have to free a hand, preferably his right, and grab the vanadium blade from the sheathing of his belt in one rapid, smooth movement.
And, at last, old Rainbow, at the upper end of the lake, poked her granite head through its vapory sheathings.
The name volva is particularly given to that part of the universal veil which remains around the base of the stem, either sheathing it or appressed closely to it, or in torn fragments.
They proved to be parts of the frieze on the plinth of the orthostat, the decorative inside sheathing of palace walls.
My ribs felt like glass, broken glass ripping through the muscle sheathing and pleural tissue.
Effective, but not very seamanlike, and the cable going under the hull was likely to wrench off copper sheathing.
The name volva is particularly given to that part of the universal veil which remains around the base of the stem, either sheathing it or appressed closely to it, or in torn fragments.
Roberts suddenly found himself rising in the air, halfway up from the game floor, an emerald pillar glittering off to his right, the golden sheathing of the downslide curving through the air before him.
Some sections were completely skeletal with no outer sheathings at all, metal frameworks exposed to the void.
Her shining copper sheathing, her galvanised iron-work, her deck, white as ivory, betrayed the pride taken by John Bunsby in making her presentable.
Doc asked, wiping the blade of his swordstick on the rags of the nearest of the stickies, then sheathing it once more.
After belting the scabbard in place and sheathing the blade, careful not to touch the cold iron, he cleaned his boots as well as he could and remounted.
Nearby one of the French frigates, La Comete, was already hove-down at the Carenage Wharf, lying almost on her side like a stranded whale, with several sheets of copper sheathing missing along the rounded turn of the bilge and showing black stripes where carpenters and their mates were perched on a small raft, busy removing damaged planking.