Crossword-Solution: SHEATHING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sheathing | p. pr. & a. | Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants. |
| Sheathing | n. | That which sheathes. |
| Sheathing | n. | The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing. |
| Sheathing | n. | The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “SHEATHING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| any material used as an outer layer | 1 answer |
| Protective case | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZCAME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHEATHING (5)
Why did she make him feel as if he were uncertain of himself, insecure, an indefinite thing, as if he had not sufficient sheathing to prevent the night and the space breaking into him? How he hated her! And then, what a rush of tenderness and humility! Suddenly he plunged on again, running home.
The tramp had used his matches disastrously: he had set his straw bed on fire, and the oaken sheathing of the room had caught.
Ice, white ice, like a winding-sheet, sheathing each smoke-grimed wall; Ice on the stove-pipe, ice on the bed, ice gleaming over all; Sparkling ice on the dead man's chest, glittering ice in his hair, Ice on his fingers, ice in his heart, ice in his glassy stare; Hard as a log and trussed like a frog, with his arms and legs outspread.
There were some screams and cries also which came to us but dully through the thickness of its ponderous sheathing, though likely enough they were sent forth at the full pitch of human lungs outside.
Open swales, where in wet years may be running water, are plantations of false hellebore (Veratrum californicum), tall, branched candelabra of greenish bloom above the sessile, sheathing, boat-shaped leaves, semi-translucent in the sun.
Quotes with SHEATHING (2)
My first encounter with a baguette, torn still warm from its paper sheathing, shattered and sighed on contact. The sound stopped me in my tracks, the way a crackling branch gives deer pause; that’s what good crust does. Once I began to chew, the flavor unfolded, deep with yeast and salt, the warm humidity of the tender crumb almost breathing against my lips.
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.