Meanings
- not comparableHaving 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 I1 more example
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 - in compoundsnot comparableHaving 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 Random1 more example
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
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of hilt
Origin
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