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Scabbard

n.
  1. The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath.
    2. Scabbard fish (Zoöl.),
    a long, compressed, silver-colored tænioid fish (Lepidopus argyreus syn. Lepidopus caudatus), found on the European coasts, and more abundantly about New Zealand, where it is called frostfish and considered an excellent food fish.

v. t.
  1. To put in a scabbard.