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(Scaubert,) Scalb(o)urd(e, Scabard, n. Also: scawbert, scau-, scawbart, skawbert; scal-, skalbert, -bart; skealbert; scabert, -berd, skabert, -bart, -bort, scabbert, skabbert(t, -bartt, scabbord, scabboird, -boord; scobert; scha(w)bert. [ME and e.m.E. scauberc (1297), skawbard (Cursor M.), scaubert (c1325), skaberte (c1450), scaberd (1546), skabard (a1548), scabbert, -erd (1600–1), AF *escauberc (recorded only in pl. escaubers, -erz, escauberge (all 13th c. in OED) vagina.] A scabbard.See also Save-skalbert n.(a) 1505 Treas. Acc. III 175.
For … binding of Wallas sword with cordis of silk, new hilt and plomet, new scaubart, new belt to the said sword, xxvj s.
1506–7 Ib. 367.
Scawbertis
1513 Doug. iv v 160.
A swerd … Of quham the scawbart [Sm. schawbert] with brown iasp wes pight
Ib. xi i 27.
Abowt hys gorget … Was hung hys swerd with evor scawbart fyne
1533 Boece 118.
Ane swerde having plwmet and hiltis of gold with ane purpure skawbert
1539 Treas. Acc. VII 179.
For graithing and dichting of the kingis suerdis, Jedburgh stavis, and making of skawbertis to thame
Ib. 177. 1543 Aberd. B. Rec. MS XVIII (Jam., s.v. Skawbert).
Ane Frence repar with ane Scottis skawbert thairone
1549 Treas. Acc. IX 301.
Skawberttis
(b) 1456 Hay I 110/18.
Jhesu Crist … bad Sanct Petir … that he suld put agayne the suerd in the scalburde
Ib. II 43/13.
And syne suld he … kys the croce of the suerd … and sa put it in the scalbourd
1511–12 Treas. Acc. IV 328.
Skalbertis
1531 Ib. VI 21.
To be scalbartis … to the king ane elne … veluett
1535 Stewart 44442.
The scalbart wes of purpure poleist new
1539 Treas. Acc. VII 191.
For making of scalbertis to the kingis suerdis and cramppettis
1541 Ib. 480.
To … suerd slipper for his fe in making of the kingis grace skalbertis
1573–4 Elgin Rec. I 144.
For skaillis of scalbertis
1586 Edinb. Hammermen in Whitelaw Sc. Arms Makers 126.
[Ordered not to] make skalberts or verneis gairdis nor graith swords with unfreemen
1611 Brechin Test. III 220.
Tuentie barkit huddrone skins appointit to be skalbert of suordis
1618 Edinb. Hammermen in Whitelaw Sc. Arms Makers 74.
Ane braid mountit suord with ane skalbart graythit
(c) 1537 Treas. Acc. VI 300.
Scabertis
1545–6 Ib. VIII 432.
Skabort
1561–2 Ib. XI 107.
Skabart
1570 Leslie 75.
Ane sword, having the hiltis and skabert of gold
1590–1 Aberd. B. Rec. II 69.
And striking him with suerd being withtin the skabars [? erron. for skabart] on the hed
1581-1623 James VI Poems II 155/57. 1600 Crim. Trials II 156.
My lord … rysing agane … drew his tua suordis furth of ane skabert
c1614 Laing MSS 138.
Two fyne gilt swordis withe fyne wellvet skabertis and guid clips
1616 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 5.
Suord skabertis
a1651 Calderwood VI 73.
The rapper … was so rousted in the skabert that skarse two men could pull it out perforce
1681 Foulis Acc. Bk. 92.
Scabard
(d) 1540 Treas. Acc. VII 407.
Scabbertis to his grace raperis
1605 Aberd. B. Rec. II 277.
They saw … James Watt strik … Willeam Ingram with ane sword, skabbertt and all … athort the scholderis
c1615 Chron. Kings 159.
Steilling out his suord and putting ȝokis of egis in the skabbert
Ib. 162.
Skabbartt
(e) 1600–1 Cal. Sc. P. XIII 765.
[A] dule scabbord [of cloth]
1664 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp in Misc. Maitl. C. II 510.
For a new scabboord [MS scabboird] to my lord sword £1 4 s.
(f) 16.. Glasgow Hammermen 10.
[Essay for an armourer:] Ane old shable … dight and ane new scobert made therto
(g) 1660 Whitelaw Sc. Arms Makers 273.
Admitted freeman as a sword dresser making skealberts and scheathis
attrib. 1538 Treas. Acc. VI 411.
Blew purpure velvet to be skawbert beltis to the kingis grace rapparis
comb. 1547 Elgin Rec. I 92.
Androv Cove, alias Skabertmaker
Ib.
Schabertmakar
1573–4 Ib. 144.
Skalbert makar
1580 Ib. 155.
Scabbertmacker
proverb. a1598 Ferg. Prov. MS No. 173.
A sword holds ane uther in the scaberd
Ib. No. 1629.
Ye hav lyen in your skabert as many good sword dois

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