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A scabbard is the cover that holds a sword’s blade when you are not using the sword. It is usually leather or metal, and it hangs at the side, often from a belt. You draw a sword from its scabbard and sheathe it when you slide it back in. In everyday life almost nobody needs this word unless they are talking about history, films, games, or museums — it belongs to swords, not kitchen knives. Sheath is the wider, more ordinary word (a knife has a sheath too); scabbard sounds more like old weapons and stories.
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組成From Middle English scabard (also scauberde, scauberk), from Anglo-Norman eschaubert / escalberc, of Germanic origin, perhaps from Frankish *skarberg, literally “blade-protection,” from *skēriz (“blade”) + *bergaz (“shelter, protection”). See also hauberk.
同家族的字
- hauberkshares the old “protection / shelter” piece (*bergaz)
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
scabbardnoun/ˈskæb.əd/
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The sheath of a sword.
- 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.
scabbardverb/ˈskæb.əd/
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To put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.
- Suddenly he scabbarded his sabre.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。