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sheath

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as in casing
something that encloses another thing especially to protect it he removed his knife from its sheath and started to whittle

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“Sheath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheath. Accessed 1 Dec. 2022.

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