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scabbards

scabbards is the plural of scabbard.

scabbards is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scabbard.

Meaning of scabbard

Noun

scabbard (plural scabbards)

  1. 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.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IX, in Hugo Gernsback, editor...

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Questions about scabbards

What is scabbards the plural of?
Scabbards is the plural of scabbard.

Words near scabbards in the dictionary

  1. scabbarded
  2. scabbardfish
  3. scabbardfishes
  4. scabbarding
  5. scabbardless
  6. scabbards
  7. scabbed
  8. scabbedness
  9. scabbery
  10. scabbier
  11. scabbiest

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