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hilted

hilted adjective: having a hilt. Also the simple past and past participle of hilt.

Adjective

hilted (not comparable)

  1. 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
  2. (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

Also used as

hilted is also the simple past and past participle of hilt.

Origin of hilted

From hilt + -ed.

Words formed from hilted

Questions about hilted

What does hilted mean?
Hilted means having a hilt.
What part of speech is hilted?
Hilted is an adjective.

Words near hilted in the dictionary

  1. Hilsea
  2. Hilson
  3. Hilsons
  4. hilt
  5. Hilt's law
  6. hilted
  7. Hiltermann
  8. hilting
  9. hiltless
  10. Hiltner
  11. Hiltners

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