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By a white table against the wall stood a rubber-gloved doctor, wiping the broad razor-like blades of the basket-hilted rapiers with disinfectant, laying out bandages, needles, tourniquet, sterile catgut.

From Time Magazine Archive

In they tramped, making a tremendous clatter upon the stone-floor with the iron-shod heels of their large jack-boots, and the clash and clang of their long, heavy, basket-hilted broadswords.

From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Scott, Walter, Sir

A moment later he was followed by old Mendoza, still in his breastplate, as he had dismounted, his great spurs jingling on his heavy boots, and his long basket-hilted sword trailing on the marble pavement.

From In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Epicure Quin used to say, it was “not safe to sit down to a turtle feast at one of the City Halls, without a basket-hilted knife and fork.”

From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by Kitchiner, William

The boxing-gloves and basket-hilted fencing-sticks became absolute means of grace to the islanders.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John