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Definition of Chape
1. n. The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.
Definition of Chape
1. Noun. (archaic) The lower metallic cap of a sword's scabbard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chape
1. a part of a scabbard [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chape
Literary usage of Chape
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen (1885)
"... l«ok xii. chape. 6 and 7. and the discussion which arose on these chapters in
the United Service Magazine and published pamphlets. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"DEC LAWN AMD chape. — " Л saint in crape is twice a saint ¡n lawn." Pope, Moral
Essays, Ep. i. L 135. What is the meaning of this often-quoted line ? ..."
3. An universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1724)
"а little thin Ph.e of Silver or Iron, at the Point of a Sc:ib'jard. Church.
CHAPTERHOUSE, [Centre, Г.] chape, ... of a chape! ..."
4. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1812)
"... chapel on the bridge, called Edward the Fourth's chape), is now used as a
news-room by a society of gentlemen. ..."
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