basket hilt

NOUN
  1. a hilt with a basket-shaped guard for the hand

How To Use basket hilt In A Sentence

  • What the Greek kopus was to the sarissa and the Roman pugio was to the gladius, so too was the French gauche to the sabre, the Spanish daga to the espada, the Scottish dirk to the basket hilt, and the English dagger to the rapier.
  • This is a copy of a basket hilted backsword which is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
  • Reproduction swords include basket hilts, mortuary half baskets, rapiers, traditional claymores, officers' broadswords and backswords.
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