hilted

English

Etymology

hilt +‎ -ed

Adjective

hilted (not comparable)

1. Having a hilt.
   • 1907, John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World‎^[1], act I:

     It was with a hilted knife maybe? I’m told, in the big world it’s bloody knives they use.

   • 1939, Rafael Sabatini, The Sword of Islam‎^[2], Chapter:

     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.

2. (in compounds) Having a hilt of a specified type.
   • 1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 34, in The Adventures of Roderick Random‎^[3]:

     A steel-hilted sword, inlaid with gold, and decked with a knot of ribbon which fell down in a rich tassel, equipped his side […]

   • 1906, Theodore Roosevelt, New York‎^[4], New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 96:

     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.

Verb

hilted

1. simple past and past participle of hilt

Anagrams

• idleth, lithed