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Hilt vs Holt - What's the difference?

hilt | holt |

As nouns the difference between hilt and holt

is that hilt is the handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand while holt is a small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.

As a verb hilt

is to provide with a hilt.

As a proper noun Holt is

an English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.

hilt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
  • The base of the penis
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2 , he draws it again, and just wetting it with spittle, re-enters, and with ease sheath'd it now up to the hilt }}

    Synonyms

    * haft

    Meronyms

    * grip * guard * pommel

    Holonyms

    * sword

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide with a hilt.

    • Anagrams

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    holt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hoult

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book X, ii:
  • *:As when a savage wolf, chas'd from the fold, / To hide his head runs to some holt or wood.
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park.
  • *1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XXXI, line 5
  • *:[the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.
  • The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.

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