The hilt (rarely called a haft or shaft) is the handle of a knife, dagger, sword, or bayonet, consisting of a guard, grip, and pommel. The guard may contain...

The basket-hilted sword is a sword type of the early modern era characterised by a basket-shaped guard that protects the hand. The basket hilt is a development...

Hilt may refer to one of the following: Hilt, a detail of a sword. Hilt (band), one of several side projects of the seminal Vancouver industrial band...

Hilter is a municipality in the district Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located in the hills of the Teutoburg Forest. As of 2020 it has a population...

To the Hilt may refer to: To the Hilt (album), 1976 album by Golden Earring To the Hilt (song), 2016 song by Banks To the Hilt (film), 2014 Macedonian...

To the Hilt is an album by Dutch rock band Golden Earring, released in 1976. All songs written by Hay and Kooymans except where noted. "Why Me?" (John...

Hilt (also known as Hilts) is an unincorporated community in Siskiyou County, California, United States. The community is along Interstate 5 near the...

Peter Malcolm Hilt (born 1942) is a former New Zealand politician. Hilt was born in Auckland, and attended Takapuna Grammar School. He was in the New...

The gamma-shaped hilt dagger (in Italian: Pugnale ad elsa gammata) is a type of bronze dagger typical of the Nuragic civilization in Sardinia. It owes...

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in...

Hilt's law is a geological law that states the deeper the coal, the higher its rank (grade). The law holds true if the thermal gradient is entirely vertical...

into the cup hilts of many later rapiers. There were hardly any samples that featured plates covering the rings prior to the 1600s. Many hilts include a...

all-metal hilt with integral quillons and a disc-shaped pommel. This type of hilt is sometimes called the 'Indo-Muslim hilt', or 'standard Indian hilt'. Talwars...

compound hæftmece in Beowulf, literally "hilt-sword", presumably describes a sword with an exceptionally long hilt. Slavic mьčь is usually regarded as a...

Hilter is a railway station located in Hilter, Germany. The station is on the Osnabrück–Brackwede railway. The train services are operated by NordWestBahn...

Ragnhild Hilt (20 September 1945 – 25 June 2014) was a Norwegian actress. She was born in Oslo as a daughter of sculptor Odd Hilt. She took her education...

The gothic hilted swords were a family of swords carried by officers and some NCOs of the British Army between 1822 and the present day. They were primarily...

Oscar Hilt Tatum, Jr. (born April 22, 1934) is an American dentist notable for being the first clinician to perform a sinus lift procedure. Tatum graduated...

Thailand. A kris can be divided into three parts: blade (bilah or wilah), hilt (hulu), and sheath (warangka). Each part of the kris is considered a piece...

or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved. A thrusting sword tends to have a straighter...

single-edged sword of the 15th and 16th century, characterised by knife-like hilt construction methods. While the various names are often used synonymously...

Gottlieb Hilt (29 January 1888 – 5 August 1958) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties. Hilt was born in...

Odd Hilt (8 March 1915 – 9 December 1986) was a Norwegian sculptor. Hilt was born at Drammen in Buskerud, Norway. He was the son of Christian Hilt (1888–1958)...

To the Hilt: Story from the Wild East (Macedonian: До балчак - Приказна од дивиот исток) is a 2014 Macedonian action-adventure Western film directed by...

sword or the Scottish variant of the basket-hilted sword. The former is characterised as having a cross hilt of forward-sloping quillons with quatrefoil...

"To the Hilt" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Banks for her second studio album, The Altar (2016). It was released as the album's...

The Pappenheim-hilt rapier originated in Germany in 1630 and was popularized by imperial general of the Thirty Years' War (1618–48) Count Pappenheim. [citation...

this type of guard normally included other features of the older rapier hilt, including quillons, ricasso, knuckle-bow, and a pas d'âne, although these...

blade with a marked forward curve and a hilt formed of two grip plaques attached through the tang, the end of the hilt being shaped like large ears. The gap...

long-sword) is a type of European sword characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for primarily two-handed use (around 15 to 30 cm or 6 to 12 in)...