hilted
adjEtymology From hilt + -ed.
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Having a hilt.
- It was with a hilted knife maybe? I’m told, in the big world it’s bloody knives they use.1907, John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World, act I:
- Then he became aware of a princely figure in a caftan of green sarcenet clasped about his loins by a long tongued belt from which hung a scimitar hilted in ivory and gold.1939, Rafael Sabatini, The Sword of Islam, Chapter:
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In compounds Having a hilt of a specified type.
- A steel-hilted sword, inlaid with gold, and decked with a knot of ribbon which fell down in a rich tassel, equipped his side […]1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 34, in The Adventures of Roderick Random:
- The grim-visaged pirate captain, in his laced cap, rich jacket, and short white knee-trunks, with heavy gold chains round his neck, and jewel-hilted dagger in belt, was a striking and characteristic feature of New York life at the close of the seventeenth century.1906, Theodore Roosevelt, New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 96:
- Derived terms
- unhilted