sheathfish (shethfish)

A false form of she at -fish. Encyc. Brit.; Web. Int. Dict. sheathing (she'Thing), n. [Verbal n. of sheathe, v.] 1. The act of one who sheathes.-2. That which sheathes, covers, or protects, or may be used for such purpose. Specifically - (a) In carpen ter - work, boarding applied to any surface, or used to cover a skeleton frame; especially, such boarding when forming the inner or rough covering intended to receive an outer coating of any sort. (b) Thin plates of metal used for covering the bottom of a wooden ship, usually copper or yellow metal, and serving to protect it from the boring of marine animals; also, a covering of wood applied to the parts under water of many iron and steel ve els, to prevent cor rosion of the metal and to delay fouling of the bottom. (e) Anything prepared for covering a surface, as of a wall or other part of a building: applied to tiles, metallic plates, stamped leather hangings, etc. Mural sheathings imitative of the finest Persian patterns. Art Jour., N. S., VII. 36. (d) A protection for the main deck of a whaling-ve el, as pine boards, about one inch in thickne , laid over the deck to prevent it from being cut up by the spades, being burned while trying out oil, etc. sheathing (shē'Thing), p. a. Inclosing by or as by a sheath: as, the sheathing base of a leaf; sheathing stipules, etc. See cut under sheath, 2. - Sheathing canal. See canal1.