scabbard: [13] English acquired scabbard from Anglo-Norman escaubers. This appears to have been a compound formed from Old High German scār, which usually meant ‘scissors’ but was also used for ‘sword’ (it came from the same base that produced English shear), and the element -berc ‘protection’ (as in hauberk [13], which etymologically means ‘neck-protection’), which was derived from bergan ‘protect’ (a relative of English borough, borrow, bury, etc). So essentially, a scabbard is ‘sword-protection’. => borough, borrow, bury, share, shear, shirt, short, skirt
scabbard (n.)
c. 1300, from Anglo-French *escauberc "sheath, vagina" (13c.), from Frankish or another Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *sker-berg-, literally "sword-protector," from *skar "blade" (source also of Old High German scar "scissors, blade, sword," from PIE *(s)ker- (1) "to cut;" see shear (v.)) + *berg- "protect" (source also of Old High German bergan "to protect;" see bury).
雙語例句
1. The dagger stuck tightly in the silver scabbard.
匕首牢牢地卡在銀質(zhì)刀鞘中。
來自柯林斯例句
2. It would be some time before the sword and its scabbard fitted together.
而劍與鞘要正好相配還得一段時間.
來自辭典例句
3. To draw from or as if from a sheath or scabbard.
拔出從劍鞘或槍套中或仿佛從劍鞘或槍套中拔出.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. After scabbard film accumulates fluid operation how should recuperate?
鞘膜積液手術(shù)后該怎樣調(diào)理?
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. He made a very beautiful scabbard for his knife.