英语词汇“hilt”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A hilt is a knife, sword, or dagger's handle. When you're learning to sword fight for your role in a Shakespeare drama, the first thing you'll learn is to hold onto the hilt.

The hilt of a sword is sometimes topped by a "pommel," an enlarged section of the handle, and protected by a "guard," which keeps your hand safe from your opponent's blade. The word hilt can also mean "totally" in the colloquial phrase "up to the hilt," as in: "That country's military is armed up to the hilt," or "They own lots of homes, but they're mortgaged up to the hilt."

WORD FAMILY

hilt: hilts

USAGE EXAMPLES

Like many women of her generation she understood that femininity is always a performance and she performed it to the hilt.

The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016)

“The Bicameral Minds” plays that to the hilt, particularly when Hector and Armistice bust up the lab.

New York Times(Dec 05, 2016)

Hedonism, pursued to the hilt, but creased with emptiness, loneliness and weakness: this was the Weeknd’s subject even before he was successful.

The Guardian(Nov 25, 2016)

n the handle of a sword or dagger

Hypo|Hyper

basket hilt

a hilt with a basket-shaped guard for the hand

grip, handgrip, handle, hold

the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it

单词	hilt
释义	hilt (once / 1734 pages) n A hilt is a knife, sword, or dagger's handle. When you're learning to sword fight for your role in a Shakespeare drama, the first thing you'll learn is to hold onto the hilt. The hilt of a sword is sometimes topped by a "pommel," an enlarged section of the handle, and protected by a "guard," which keeps your hand safe from your opponent's blade. The word hilt can also mean "totally" in the colloquial phrase "up to the hilt," as in: "That country's military is armed up to the hilt," or "They own lots of homes, but they're mortgaged up to the hilt." WORD FAMILY hilt: hilts USAGE EXAMPLES Like many women of her generation she understood that femininity is always a performance and she performed it to the hilt. The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016) “The Bicameral Minds” plays that to the hilt, particularly when Hector and Armistice bust up the lab. New York Times(Dec 05, 2016) Hedonism, pursued to the hilt, but creased with emptiness, loneliness and weakness: this was the Weeknd’s subject even before he was successful. The Guardian(Nov 25, 2016) n the handle of a sword or dagger Hypo\|Hyper basket hilt a hilt with a basket-shaped guard for the hand grip, handgrip, handle, hold the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
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