scabbard : Idioms & Phrases

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Scabbard fish

  • (Zoöl.), a long, compressed, silver-colored tænioid fish (Lepidopus caudatus, ∨ argyreus), found on the European coasts, and more abundantly about New Zealand, where it is called frostfish and considered an excellent food fish.
Webster 1913

scabbard plane

Scab"bard plane`
Definitions
  1. See Scaleboard plane, under Scaleboard.
Webster 1913