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Part of Speech: noun

The bottom part of a mold or of a flask, in distinction from the cope; the drag.

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scabbard

Part of Speech: noun

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1. The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath.

Part of Speech: verb transitive

1. To put in a scabbard.

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When he reached the mud line he turned, drew his umbrella as if from an imaginary scabbard, made a military salute, and, with a suppressed gurgle in his throat, kept on to Jack's room. - "Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero", F. Hopkinson Smith.
Turning he shot his sword home into its scabbard with a click. - "From One Generation to Another", Henry Seton Merriman.
Finally, with a look of infinite humiliation, he slowly slipped the sword back into its scabbard. - "Caribbee", Thomas Hoover.

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