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hilted

hilted

6.8
Having a handle that you hold on a sword or dagger
  • adjective
  • /ˈhɪltɪd/
translation icon : con empuñadura
  • She admired the intricate design of the hilted dagger on display.

Examples

  • Somehow, without knowing he'd done it, Karo had shifted the infant to the crook of his left arm and taken his jewel-hilted dagger from his belt.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The knight drew his hilted sword, ready to face his opponent in battle.

  • A bowl-hilted sword hangs behind him, completing his armament.

    Academic text (2002)

  • He carefully placed the antique hilted sword back in its case after polishing it.

Surface Forms

hilted positive

Morphology

hilted = hilt (transparent) = hilt + ed

Formed by adding the productive adjectival/participial suffix '-ed' to the noun 'hilt', yielding 'having a hilt', a directly inferable meaning.

Etymology

Hilted comes from hilt, the word for a sword's 'handle'. So something hilted simply means it has a hilt, for example a sword or dagger with a clear 'handle'.