sheathy

From sheath +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃiːθi/

sheathy (comparative more sheathy, superlative most sheathy)

1. Forming or resembling a sheath or case.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     with a needle put aside the short and sheathy cases on their back

• “sheathy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.