Basket-hilted

ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED².] Of swords: Having a basket-hilt. Of persons: Wearing a basket-hilted sword.

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1600. Rowlands, Lett. Humours Blood, v. 72. Basket hilted Sword.

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a. 1659. Cleveland, Count. Com. Man (1677), 99. A good Basket-hilted Yeoman.

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1854. F. Catherwood, Trav. Centr. Amer., 100. Don Clementino … swung a large basket-hilted sword through a strap in the saddle.

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