HILT meaning: Handle of a sword, dagger

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word hilt:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

hilt: Merriam-Webster
hilt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
hilt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
hilt: Collins English Dictionary
hilt: Vocabulary.com
Hilt, hilt: Wordnik
hilt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Hilt, hilt: Wiktionary
hilt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
hilt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
hilt: Infoplease Dictionary
Hilt, hilt: Dictionary.com
hilt: Online Etymology Dictionary
hilt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Hilt (band), Hilt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Hilt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
hilt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
hilt: Rhymezone
Hilt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
hilt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
hilt: FreeDictionary.org
hilt: Mnemonic Dictionary
hilt: TheFreeDictionary.com
hilt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
hilt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

HILT: Acronym Finder
hilt: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Hilt: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
▸ noun:  The base of the penis.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To provide with a hilt.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To insert (a bodily extremity) as far as it can go into a sexual orifice so that it is impeded by the wider base to which it is attached (finger until palm, penis until pelvis).
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

helve, helm, grab handle, axhandle, Halbert, horse, haulm, handlebar, hoplite, helmet, more...

Opposite:

pommel

Types:

basket hilt, cup hilt, knucklebow hilt, shell hilt, ring hilt, pommel, more...

Phrases:

basket hilt, to the hilt, (up) to the hilt, sword hilt, more...

Adjectives:

golden, jewelled, very, sword, black, wooden, shaped, heavy, cross, long, broken

Colors:

silver, gold, bronze, black, brown, more...