Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without a chape: said of a scabbard worn out and battered, exposing the point of the sword.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a chape.
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- adjective Without a
chape .
Etymologies
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chape + -less
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Examples
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III. ii.45 (404,3) [a pair of boots that have been candle -- eases; one buckled, another lac'd; an old rusty sword ta'en out of the town armory, with a broken hilt, and chapeless, with two broken points]
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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_laced_ with two broken points; _an old rusty sword_ -- _with a broken hilt, and chapeless_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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