SHEATHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sheathed mean? 

• SHEATHED (adjective)
  The adjective SHEATHED has 1 sense:

1. enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination

  Familiarity information: SHEATHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHEATHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination

Context example:

copper-sheathed

Similar:

cased; encased; incased (covered or protected with or as if with a case)

clad (having an outer covering especially of thin metal)

ironclad (sheathed in iron plates for protection)

podlike (resembling a pod)

Antonym:

unsheathed (not having a protective covering)

 Context examples 

These organisms are motile by bipolar, sheathed flagella and are composed of ten species of Helicobacter organisms including the species H. bilis and H. trogontum.

(Helicobacter rappini, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of gram-negative helical, curved, or straight microaerophilic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple sheathed flagella (unipolar or bipolar and lateral) with terminal bulbs.

(Helicobacter, NCI Thesaurus)

So silent and still were they, that they might have been metal-sheathed statues, were it not for the occasional quick, impatient stamp of their chargers, or the rattle of chamfron against neck-plates as they tossed and strained.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is upon this account that the image of Justice, in their courts of judicature, is formed with six eyes, two before, as many behind, and on each side one, to signify circumspection; with a bag of gold open in her right hand, and a sword sheathed in her left, to show she is more disposed to reward than to punish.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)