verb [VN]
1 (literary) to put a knife or SWORD into a sheath
2 [usuallypassive] ~ sth (in / with sth) to cover sth in a material, especially in order to protect it
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for sheathe is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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