This design is hard to beat for timber hunting or for packing in a saddle scabbard.

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

The 7th century: de: Schwertscheide von Gutenstein | Gutenstein scabbard, found near Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, is a late testimony of pagan ritual in Alemannia, showing a warrior in ritual wolf costume, holding a ring-spatha.

In Japanese, the scabbard for a nihontō is referred to as a saya, and the handguard piece, often intricately designed as an individual work of art — especially in later years of the Edo period — was called the tsuba.

This machete is issued with a 5-inch Bowie knife and a sharpening stone in the scabbard ; collectively called a " jungle kit " ( Conjunto de Selva in Portuguese ); it is manufactured by Indústria de Material Bélico do Brasil ( IMBEL ).

* Scabbard: The scabbard, also known as the Sheath, is a protective cover often provided for the sword blade.

The metal fitting where the blade enters the leather or metal scabbard is called the throat, which is often part of a larger scabbard mount, or locket, that bears a carrying ring or stud to facilitate wearing the sword.

* Sword belt: A sword belt is a belt with an attachment for the sword's scabbard, used to carry it when not in use.

It is usually fixed to the scabbard of the sword, providing a fast means of drawing the sword in battle.

A scabbard is a sheath for holding a sword, knife, or other large blade.

The metal fitting where the blade enters the leather or metal scabbard is called the throat, which is often part of a larger scabbard mount, or locket, that bears a carrying ring or stud to facilitate wearing the sword.

The vagina ( from Latin vāgīna, literally " sheath " or " scabbard ") is a fibromuscular tubular tract which is a sex organ and has two main functions ; sexual intercourse and childbirth.

The P-shaped scabbard mount of the bottom sword is said to be derived from the swords of the Sarmatians and Sassanians.

Herodotus's story is that while mounting his horse, the tip of Cambyses's scabbard broke and his sword pierced his thigh-Herodotus mentions it is the same place where he stabbed a sacred cow in Egypt.

is a modern Japanese martial art associated with the smooth, controlled movements of drawing the sword from its scabbard or saya, striking or cutting an opponent, removing blood from the blade, and then replacing the sword in the scabbard.

In some tellings, wounds received by one wearing the scabbard did not bleed at all.

When worn with full armour, the tachi would be accompanied by a shorter blade in the form known as koshigatana (" waist sword "); a type of short sword with no hand-guard ( tsuba ) and where the hilt and scabbard meet to form the style of mounting called an aikuchi (" meeting mouth ").

Japanese blades, however, typically have their sharp cutting edge protected by a wooden scabbard called a saya.

The katana could even be used as a device to stun enemies before attacking them, by putting a combination of red pepper, dirt or dust, and iron filings into the area near the top of the scabbard, so that as the sword was drawn the concoction would fly into the enemy's eyes, stunning him until a lethal blow could be made.

They found that Tom McLaury may have been hit by the shotgun round under his armpit as he reached over his horse for a rifle in his scabbard, as the horse turned away from him at the same time.

The daimyo of Akō had removed his dagger from its scabbard within Edo Castle, and for that offense, he was ordered to kill himself by committing seppuku.

* Sega's Sonic Team transforms King Arthur into " The Black Knight " as a result of corruption from his immortality inducing scabbard of Excalibur given by the Lady of the Lake in the Arthurian influenced Sonic and the Black Knight.

This version of the battle was popularized by the book, The Killer Angels and the movie, Gettysburg and there is a historical debate on the validity of this account .. Chamberlain sustained two slight wounds in the battle, one when a shot hit his sword scabbard and bruised his thigh, and another when his right foot was hit by a spent bullet or piece of shrapnel.

It was described by Lawrence Tanner as the most beautiful and valuable sword in the world ; the hilt and the scabbard are both encrusted with jewels ( which include diamonds, rubies and sapphires ) and the blade is of the finest Damascus steel.

It is accompanied by a wooden scabbard which is covered with velvet and silver and hung from a woven silk and thread of gold belt.

In an early December speech to his constituents, he condemned the British military preparations “ before we have made a representation to the American Government, before we have heard a word from it in reply, should be all up in arms, every sword leaping from its scabbard and every man looking about for his pistols and blunderbusses ?” Cobden joined with Bright by speaking at public meetings and by writing letters to newspapers, organizers of meetings that he could not attend, and influential people in and out of Britain.

Having no guard, the yatagan fitted closely into the top of the scabbard ; this was customarily worn thrust into a waist sash, retained by hook.

Guided by Ayden, they manage to find the scabbard of the sword in the footprints of a giant.

A pair of swords will often be carried side by side within the same scabbard, so as to give the appearance of a single weapon.

Later, as Mordred begins an arcane ritual, the scabbard in the hotel flies across the room, stirred by the magic.

At the preliminary hearing for Brocius afterward, Wyatt testified that he had heard White say: " I am an officer ; give me your pistol .” When he got close, he saw Brocius remove his pistol from his scabbard and White grab it by the barrel.

Six days of incessant skirmishing succeeded, during which Kilmaine never had his boots off, nor returned his sabre once to the scabbard, and he displayed the most reckless valour on the 8th of May, in that battle fought by de Dampierre to deliver Conde.

Other targets who escaped were a Major Hardy, as well as a " Major King, a colleague of Hardy was missing when he Joe Dolan burst into his room that he took revenge by giving his half-naked mistress ' a right scourging with a sword scabbard ', and setting fire to the room afterwards.

The polyester elastomer scabbard, designed by Natick Labs, offers a weight and noise reduction from the previous M7 Scabbard and is ILBE compatible.

Failing in this, Morgan throws Excalibur's protective scabbard into a lake.

In Malory's Le Morte D ' Arthur, when King Arthur entrusted Excalibur into Morgan le Fay's care ( Arthur's sister ), she had a duplicate made ; the real scabbard was then passed from her to her lover Accolon.

There, he started a great fire and threw his scabbard into the flames.

" Iaijutsu " was known before the Tokugawa period ( before 1603 ) but it is unclear exactly when the term " iaijutsu " first came into use, or when exactly drawing the katana from its scabbard first became practiced as a martial art.

In February 1918 general Mannerheim, the commander of the anti-communist White Guards, wrote his famous " sword scabbard order of the day ", in which he said that he would not put his sword into the scabbard until East Karelia was free of Russian control.

On display are the wrestling shoes he wore into the ring in 1911 against Hackenschmidt, his Mason ’ s sword and leather scabbard, the roll-top desk that sat in his living room in Humboldt and many other rare items.

As the argument escalated into a potentially bloody confrontation, Kim's sword was said to have leaped from its scabbard into his hand.

The term rapier may have been originally a pejorative for the tuck ( estoc, stocco ) that appeared in the English lexicon via the French épée rapière which either compared the weapon to a rasp or file ; or rapier may be a corruption of " rasping sword " which referred to the rasping or grating sound the blade makes when it is unsheathed from its scabbard or when it comes into contact with another blade.

Most of the szlachta could afford only one expensive karabela and, in case of a dire need, simply replaced the ebony or ivory scabbard with a leather version and removed some of the precious stones from the hilt in order to convert it into a reliable weapon.

He that draws his sword upon the king, must throw his scabbard into the fire ; and that all peace with him would prove the spoil of the godly .”

Like most medieval and then imperial Russian weaponry of the time, often the shashka and its scabbard were very ornately decorated, with gold and silver engravings, embedded gems and stones placed into, and figures carved out of or into, the hilts.