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Search phrase: hilt

Plays

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
Henry VI Part 3	3H6 I.iv.12	With purple falchion, painted to the hilt	With Purple Faulchion, painted to the Hilt,
The Merry Wives of Windsor	MW III.v.102	of a peck, hilt to point, heel to head; and then, to	of a Pecke, hilt to point, heele to head. And then to
The Taming of the Shrew	TS III.ii.47	armoury, with a broken hilt, and chapeless; with two	Armory, with a broken hilt, and chapelesse: with two
The Winter's Tale	WT II.iii.168	(his hand upon the hilt)

Poems

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Glossary

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backsword	a basket-hilted sword with a single-edged blade and a thin back; later, a sword-like stick with a basketwork hilt, used in fencing practice
basket-hilt	sword hilt with protective steel basketwork
dudgeon	[of a dagger] handle, hilt, haft

Thesaurus

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basketwork sword hilt	basket-hilt
hilt	dudgeon
hilt	backsword
sword hilt with protective steel basketwork	basket-hilt

Themes and Topics

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Weapons

...er a sword-like stick with a basketwork hilt used in fencing practice baldr...
... basket-hilt 2h4 ii iv 127 sword hilt consisting of a steel lattice in a baske...
... dudgeon mac ii i 46 dagger hilt falchion kl v iii 274 cur...

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