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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scab·bard n.  The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath.
    Nor in thy scabbard sheathe that famous blade.   --Fairfax.
 Scabbard fish Zool., a long, compressed, silver-colored taenioid 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.