Word: sheathe
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...rough hull. To save the hands ("principal tools of salvation") Chambliss recommends carrying a pair of light leather gloves in the hip pocket at all times. A knife is a necessity. So is a pencil flashlight, easily carried in a shirt pocket, best kept dry in a knotted rubber sheath ("a bit inelegant, but elegance has no place in abandoning ship...
...name is turned with mine in cunning sheath...
...duties would be "guesting" a column for a soon-to-be married-and-thus no-time to-write Ensign However, the situations with which I have been confronted, the problems which I have tackled, and the impatient Ensigns whom I have pacified with a few clam words and a sheath of incorrectly filled forms, have, I believe, if not prepared me for this journalistic task, at least given me the course to speak my place (or peace ... depending upon the interpretations...
...while the sword is yet in sheath, And while I wait to act my part; I dream . . . until the point of death Shall strike to still a lonely heart...
...They are self-supervising. Damage to the sheath lets gas escape; and this warning drop in pressure sends crews to repair the cable before the vital copper conductors are hurt...