different between hoister vs scabbard

English

Etymology

hoist +? -er

Noun

hoister (plural hoisters)

1. One who, or that which, hoists or lifts.
2. (Britain, slang) A thief.
   • 1931, The Police Journal (volume 4, page 504)

     In order better to appreciate the use of argot among thieves, a visit to a few public bars of the third-class public houses of Kennington or in the immediate vicinity of the Elephant and Castle would prove of great value, as hoisters, whizzers, tea-leaves, con-heads, broadsmen and brass nobs […]

   • 1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime? (page 92)

     Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]

Anagrams

• heriots, shortie, toshier

English

Etymology

From Middle English scabard, scauberde, scauberk, scauberke, from Anglo-Norman eschaubert, escalberc, of Germanic origin, perhaps from Frankish *skarberg (“sheath”, literally “blade-protection”), from Proto-Germanic *sk?riz (“blade, scissors”) + *bergaz (“shelter, protection, refuge”). See also hauberk.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?skæb.?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?skæb.?d/
• Hyphenation: scab?bard

Noun

scabbard (plural scabbards)

2. The sheath of a sword.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     I had had to discard my rifle before I commenced the rapid descent of the cliff, so that now I was armed only with a hunting knife, and this I whipped from its scabbard as Kho leaped toward me.

Translations

Verb

scabbard (third-person singular simple present scabbards, present participle scabbarding, simple past and past participle scabbarded)

1. To put an object (especially a sword) into its scabbard.

   Suddenly he scabbarded his sabre.

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “scabbard”, in Online Etymology Dictionary