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/ʃiθ naɪf/ Listen

noun

Sheath n.

A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard. "The dead knight's sword out of his sheath he drew."

Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part. Specifically:

(a)

(Bot.) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.

(b)

(Zool.) One of the elytra of an insect.

Medullary sheath. (Anat.) See under Medullary.

Primitive sheath. (Anat.) See Neurilemma.

Sheath knife, a knife with a fixed blade, carried in a sheath.

Sheath of Schwann. (Anat.) See Schwann's sheath.

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Etymology of 'Sheath knife'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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