hilts in English

noun
1
the handle of a weapon or tool, especially a sword, dagger, or knife.
Quad's hands gripped sword hilts , cueing Mack to bring his rifle to a firing position.
synonyms:handlehafthandgripgripshaftshankhelve
noun

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1. In puncturing the mask of McCarthy's awesome intellect, Hilts acts on our behalf as both questioner and narrator.

2. The Cutlasses, however, are accurate representations of classical late seventeenth century Dutch or German weapons with large iron shell-hilts, manufactured well into the mid-18th century with basically no design changes, although such shell hilts were also manufactured by other European nations, if generally smaller.

3. Or think of the modern-day “Christian” gunmen in a recent civil war who, “just like medieval warriors who had saints’ names on their sword hilts, taped pictures of the Virgin to their rifle butts.”