basket-hilted
- a word derived from basket hilt.
Example Sentences
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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
Is it the two-handed sword, or the basket-hilted two-edged sword now bearing the appellation?
From Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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
By his side hung a long, straight, basket-hilted sword, beneath one arm he carried a bagpipe, while upon his head was—not a horn—but a Scot's bonnet with a long eagle's feather.
From The Broad Highway by Farnol, Jeffery
“She wants to copy the inscription on that old basket-hilted sabre,” said Clovis, pointing to a venerable weapon hanging on the wall.
From Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki
