hilt

plural hilts

1. The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.

   A partial tang does not extend all the way through the hilt and is normally not more than half the width of the blade. The length of the tang and the width, particularly where it narrows before entering the pommel, vary from sword to sword.

   2009, James Drewe, Tàijí Jiàn 32-Posture Sword Form, Singing Dragon, →ISBN

   Synonyms: haft

2. The base of the penis.

   he draws it again, and just wetting it with spittle, re-enters, and with ease sheath'd it now up to the hilt

   Fanny Hill

   1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC

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   Joy saw stars as Malcolm's hard, thick cock pushed to his hilt, the reality shattering every fantasy about him she ever had. She opened her legs wider and bent her knees. As he pulled out, she tilted her pelvis for his next thrust. His cock ran against her clit hood barbell[…]

   2017 December 1, Lexi Post, Temptations of Christmas Future, Lexi Post, →ISBN

   She jerked his hilt steadily as I rocked over the sensitive head of his cock. The more I worked him the more I felt my crotch dampen with lust.

   2023 October 5, Nicki Menage, Milf’s Threesomes 60-Pack : Books 1 - 60 (Milf Erotica Threesome Erotica Anal Sex Erotica Lesbian Erotica), Taboo Ink

present singular third person hilts · participle present hilting · participle past hilted · past hilted

1. transitiveTo provide with a hilt.

   Reconstructions of Type A and Type B swords weigh less than 500g, even when hilted.

   2011, Dan Howard, Bronze Age Military Equipment, →ISBN, page 38

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   Being lightly hilted, it was very heavy in the point and was useful only as an unscientific chopper, dangerous if it connected with a vital part of an adversary, ideal for cutting at defenceless infantry, but unsuitable for sabre to sabre action, especially against the French equivalent, a beautifully balanced weapon, which was so functional that it was still used by the French cavalry in 1918, while a copy was used by the Prussians in the war of 1870.

   1973, Ugo Pericoli, 1815: the armies at Waterloo, page 78

   She took a ray of light from the moon, the lamp which stands on her adorning table, and fashioned it into a bright dagger. She hilted it with the turquoise of the morning sky, with some of the stars in it for better grip, and gave it to Gulsera, whispering in her ear.

   1978, Martin Louis Alan Gompertz, Adventures in Sakaeland, page 68

   By 1810 Clark and Rogers were New Orleans silversmiths, but this study has not revealed any products that they hilted.

   2015, Daniel D. Hartzler, American Silver-Hilted, Revolutionary and Early Federal Swords, →ISBN

2. transitiveTo 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 (e.g. finger until palm, penis until pelvis).

   his fingers hilted inside

   2015, Kitsune, page 41

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   He hilted himself inside her.

   2017, Hot Wife's Secret Sex Life, page 25

plural Hilts

1. A surname.