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hilt Definition

hilt (hilt)

noun

the handle of a sword, dagger, tool, etc.

Etymology: ME hilt < OE, akin to ON hjalt < IE base *kel-, to strike, split > L calamitas, harm, OE hild, battle

transitive verb

to provide a hilt for

hilt Idioms

to the hilt

thoroughly; entirely

hilt Synonyms

hilt

n.

hilt Usage Examples

Object

  • sword: The stirrup hilted sword remained the regulation pattern until 1822.
  • gold: Blue; two Mameluke swords in saltire proper hilted ivory guards gold between the blades in chief a Mameluke head dress white.

Converse of object

  • have: Most of these bayonets made during and after 1916 had brass hilts in place of the earlier white metal type.
  • grasp: The honest and wise Sir Hugh stands before Simple, his right hand grasping the hilt of his sword.
  • jewel: There were masks and a curved sword with a jeweled hilt.
  • cover: Its mysterious intrinsic beauty and practicality may well have led the Samurai warriors to cover the hilts of their swords with such skin.

Adjective modifier

  • different: Enjoy... Lightsaber The player will start with a lightsaber he creates choosing from different hilts and blade colors.

Modifies a noun

  • gold: Blue; in front of a sword erect point downwards proper pommel and hilt gold a Maltese Cross white.

Noun used with modifier

  • sword: Lan's hand drifted to his sword hilt, half consciously easing the blade in its sheath.
  • metal: Built into the metal hilts are pre-programmed on-board multi-channel sound chips with digital sound effects taken from the movie.
  • brass: Most of these bayonets made during and after 1916 had brass hilts in place of the earlier white metal type.
  • basket: Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand.
  • steel: Blade: Live Edge ( Coated, Matt Black ), steel hilt, rubber hand grip.
  • dagger: These glass objects belong to a class of high prestige weapons such as dagger hilts made of agate.

Preposition: of

  • sword: I had my hand on the hilt of the sword waiting for your signal to kill him.
  • knife: The hilt of a large knife protrudes from her mouth.
hilt Quotes

  And there he bounde the gyrdyll aboute the hyltis, and threw theswerde as farre intothewatirashemyght. And there cam an arme and an honde above the watir, and toke hit and cleyght hit, and shoke hit thryse and braundysshed, and than vanysshed with the swerde into the watir.

—Malory, SirThomas   d.1471

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