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chapeless

Shakespearean Definition:

Adjective - wanting a chape or sheath

Frequency: 1

Here are all of the speeches where chapeless shows up across the corpus:

The Taming of the Shrew

Why , Petruchio is coming in a new hat and
an old jerkin , a pair of old breeches thrice turned ,
a pair of boots that have been candle-cases , one
buckled , another laced ; an old rusty sword ta’en
out of the town armory , with a broken hilt , and
chapeless ; with two broken points ; his horse
hipped , with an old mothy saddle and stirrups of no
kindred , besides possessed with the glanders and
like to mose in the chine , troubled with the lampass ,
infected with the fashions , full of windgalls ,
sped with spavins , rayed with the yellows , past cure
of the fives , stark spoiled with the staggers , begnawn
with the bots , swayed in the back and shoulder-shotten ,
near-legged before , and with a half-checked
bit and a headstall of sheep’s leather ,
which , being restrained to keep him from stumbling ,
hath been often burst , and now repaired with
knots ; one girth six times pieced , and a woman’s
crupper of velour , which hath two letters for her
name fairly set down in studs , and here and there
pieced with packthread .