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).
实用例句
1. The dagger stuck tightly in the silver scabbard.
匕首牢牢地卡在银质刀鞘中。来自柯林斯例句
2. It would be some time before the sword and its scabbard fitted together.
而剑与鞘要正好相配还得一段时间.来自辞典例句
3. To draw from or as if from a sheath or scabbard.
拔出从剑鞘或枪套中或仿佛从剑鞘或枪套中拔出.来自互联网
4. After scabbard film accumulates fluid operation how should recuperate?
鞘膜积液手术后该怎样调理?来自互联网
5. He made a very beautiful scabbard for his knife.
