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Saber handle
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hilt
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hilt may refer to one of the following. Hilt , a detail of a sword. Hilt (band) , one of several side projects of the seminal Vancouver industrial band Skinny Puppy Peter Hilt , a former New Zealand politician
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB defend ▪ I take up points of view I don't actually support strongly and start defending them to the hilt . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And so I divvied up the company into manageable pieces and told these executives to go ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English hilt "hilt, handle of a sword or dagger," from Proto-Germanic *helt (cognates: Old Norse hjalt , Old High German helza "hilt," Old Saxon helta "oar handle"), perhaps from PIE *kel- (1) "to strike." Formerly also used in plural in same sense ...
Usage examples of hilt.
Then, closing his right hand around its hilt, he turned to salute each of the four airts, beginning with the east, where the altar lay.
Gorloic, and laying a hand to his hilt he rushed forward through the antechamber and into the gatehouse, his friends coming hard on his heels.
With both hands wrapped around the golden hilt, she swung her sword, biceps taut, stretched, her entire body behind the killing blow.
His work should have permanent value in the literature of war psychology, but he only undertakes to expose German lies, and in his 72-paged booklet he proves to the hilt the charges made in this work.
In his full regalia the Buzzard mounted the platform, and as he took the oath placed one hand on the flashing yellow cairngorm in the hilt of his dagger.
He felt the cool ceramite gauntlets encasing his fingers, and the hilt of the bolt pistol in his hand.
There was another with them, an old man Daile did not recognize, but by the scales of justice engraved on the hilt of his sword, she knew him to be a venerable paladin.
The sword hilts digging into her side, she brought the darter up and around, more by instinct than will, then sprayed the hall with darts.
In her own, she touched a broken sword with a defaced hilt emblem, a ring, and something warm, but bypassed them all for things more suited to their present need.
The Adar grabbed for it, closed his hand around the hilt, but the Dobro Designate stepped on his wrist, pressing down with nearly enough force to crack bone.
Professor Durand and tell him personally that I am willing to back his invention to the hilt.
From within the tops of his calf-length boots, the chef withdrew a pair of short, edgeless stilettos, five inches of blued blade and guardless bone hilts.
Disneyland, Jeanine Hilt had an acute asthma attack, went into respiratory failure, and suffered oxygen deprivation so severe that she lost all brain function: in other words, she developed hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, exactly the same fate that had befallen Lia.
He just stood there fingering the hilt of his sword and watching Fal Sivas questioningly, as though he awaited a signal.
I disarmed one of my opponents and the third went down with my blade buried to the hilt in his breast and three feet of it protruding from his back, and falling wrenched the sword from my grasp.