hilt
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
to the hilt
thoroughly; entirely
hilt
Synonyms
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
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.
