basket hilt

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   a hilt with a basket-shaped guard for the hand

   Broaderhilt

Questions about basket hilt

What does basket hilt mean?

basket hilt means "a hilt with a basket-shaped guard for the hand".

Is basket hilt a common word?

basket hilt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.