different between scabbard vs pilcher

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?lt??(?)/

Etymology 1

Noun

pilcher (plural pilchers)

1. Archaic form of pilchard.

   • He that eats nothing but a red herring a-day shall ne'er be broiled for the devil's rasher: a pilcher, signor, a surdiny, an olive, that I may be a philosopher first, and immortal after.

Etymology 2

pilch +? -er

Noun

pilcher (plural pilchers)

1. (obsolete) One who wears a pilch.
2. (obsolete) A scabbard, as of a sword.
   • 1591-95, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, scene 1

     MERCUTIO: Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears?

3. A term of abuse for a person considered worthless, contemptible, or insignificant.[1]