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What is a chape?

What is a chape? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaic) The piece by which an object is attached to something, such as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.
  2. (archaic) The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.
  3. (archaic) The lower metallic cap of a sword's scabbard.
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To cut the matter short, he tould me the skipper had sould me as chape as a speckled orange!
Like all lace chape makers whose images can be found in the 'Hausbucher der Nurnberger Zwolfbruderstiftung', Dyetz Nestler is depicted in Amb.
Don't be standin' when sittin' down is chape enough, even for the poor.
As it reached the chape, it was again wound tightly in several layers to protect the more regularly damaged end of the sheath.
They must run a chape little thing to the Dargle, about two miles away, along the roadside, just as Balfour showed them the way.
He had a chape farm, and could afford to wallow like a swine in filth and laziness.

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