Meaning of sputcheon | Babel Free

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The metal lining of a scabbard's mouth.

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“Schlussblech, […] The sputcheon of the mouth-piece; inner part of the mouth-piece, which retains the lining of metal-scabbards.”

“[…] [batte] de la cuvette, sputcheon of the mouth-piece of a sword-scabbard, or that part which retains the wooden scabbard (fût).”

“Mouth pieces and sputcheons will no longer be supplied separately, but mouth pieces with the sputcheon strongly attached will be furnished.”

“It may be interesting to enumerate the number of operations required for the making of a new British cavalry sword, independently of the production of the steel. They are as follows: / The manufacture of the blade, 32 operations; scabbard, 30; scabbard mouthpiece with sputcheon, 32; […]”

“The scabbard is of steel, and is fitted with an iron sputcheon with brass mouthpiece, braced on and fixed in scabbard with screws. […] The lining consists of two strips of wood held in position by the sputcheon.”

“She held her mouth slitted open in anguish so that in Inman's mind it resembled the sputcheon to a sword scabbard.”

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