The metal plates or mountings of a scabbard or sheath; particularly those that cover the point.
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Examples for "chapes "
Examples for "chapes "
1 The straps and chapes are sewn on quite close to the frame, straps 10 inches long by 1 inch, chapes 4½ inches by 1 inch.
1 Don't be standin' when sittin' down is chape enough, even for the poor.
2 Anyhow, it's clane, and it came chape enough.
3 A boy gave it to me to carry to a chape hotel, so I brought it home.
4 Troth, it's chape as dirt-soit is.
5 This is a chape hotel, isn't it?
6 You shall have this tit chape .
7 Such a power of bir-r-ds, would knock down 'praties, in a wonderful degree, and make even butthermilk chape and plenthiful.
8 I think that av ye offered yersilf chape enough he might give ye a job wid a shovel on the grade.
9 The sheath was made of stiffened leather ornately worked in gold, with a gold chape at the tip and gold at the throat.
10 A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.
11 'Tis none av his doin's-thedhirty oil an' the chape waste an' the jacket lamps.
12 So the three of them went round by way of the Rue Gabrielle and climbed the steps of the Rue Chape .
13 "I'll go with you now to a chape hotel, and won't charge you nothin'."
14 The straps and chapes are sewn on quite close to the frame, straps 10 inches long by 1 inch, chapes 4½ inches by 1 inch.
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