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Definition of Basket hilt
1. Noun. A hilt with a basket-shaped guard for the hand.
Definition of Basket hilt
1. Noun. A style of sword hilt that surrounds and protects the hand. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basket Hilt
Literary usage of Basket hilt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Schools and Masters of Fence: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century by Egerton Castle (1885)
"These bars are likewise connected with each other in many different and artistic
fashions, and thus the basket hilt is constituted. ..."
2. A Description of Indian and Oriental Armour: Illustrated from the Collection by Wilbraham Egerton Egerton (1896)
"PISTOL-SWORD ; straight blade of burnished steel ; basket hilt of steel, ...
SABRE; broad fluted blade, slightly recurved ; basket hilt, with spiked pommel ..."
3. The Scotsman's Library: Being a Collection of Anecdotes and Facts by James Mitchell (1825)
"A Highland Serjeant, formerly billeted in Mr. Van Mon's house, at Brussels, came
back with the basket-hilt of his sword so bruised that he could not get his ..."
4. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"... or hilt of a sword; and mand is a basket or other piece of wickerwork; whence
schacht-mand, a basket-hilt, or the length of a basket hilt of a ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1869)
"The this kind in my possession : — chancellor having pronounced decidedly against
This on a broadsword, with basket hilt of the would not thereby become ..."
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