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HOLSTER

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 619 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOLSTER , a See also:

leather See also:case to hold a See also:pistol, used by a horseman and properly fastened to the See also:saddle-See also:bow, but sometimes worn in the See also:belt. The same word appears in Dutch, from which the See also:English word probably directly derives. The See also:root is het- or hulto See also:cover, and is seen in the O. Eng. heolster, a See also:place of shelter or concealment, and in " See also:hull " a sheath or covering. The See also:German word for the same See also:object, holfter, is, according to the New English See also:Dictionary, from a different root.

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