Usually means: Covers, encloses, or protects something.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. sheathes: Merriam-Webster
  2. sheathes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sheathes: Vocabulary.com
  4. sheathes: Wordnik
  5. sheathes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sheathes: Wiktionary
  7. sheathes: Dictionary.com
  8. sheathes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. sheathes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sheathes: Legal dictionary

(Note: See sheathe as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sheathe)

verb:  (transitive) To put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath.
verb:  (transitive) To encase (something) with a protective covering.
verb:  (transitive) Of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body, such as claws into a paw.
verb:  (transitive, dated or literary, poetic, figuratively) To thrust (a sharp object like a sword, a claw, or a tusk) into something.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete or rare, figuratively) To abandon or cease (animosity, etc.)
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To provide (a sword, etc.) with a sheath.
verb:  (transitive, medicine, obsolete) To relieve the harsh or painful effect of (a drug, a poison, etc.).
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