chape
Americannoun
noun
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a metal tip or trimming for a scabbard
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the metal tongue of a buckle
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of chape
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French: (metal) covering < Late Latin cappa; see cap 1, cape 1
Example Sentences
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"Annyhow, Granny, it's a mercy it was a real gold ring, an' not one of them chape things to be gettin' all rusty in the wather."
From The Misfit Christmas Puddings by Consolation, Club
Whin I come home again, Biddy, A sargent tried and thrue, It's joost a daycent house I'll build And rint it chape to you.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
Well, there’s wan ye kin hev’ fer sivin cints, dirt chape at that.
From In Wild Rose Time by Douglas, Amanda M.
I think that av ye offered yersilf chape enough he might give ye a job wid a shovel on the grade.
From The Winning of Barbara Worth by Wright, Harold Bell
He had a chape farm, and could afford to wallow like a swine in filth and laziness.
From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William
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