Hilte

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hilte

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 hilte

f. A hilt, handle:-- Hilte capulus, capulum[?], Ælfc. Gl. 52; Som. 66, 47, 26; Wrt. Voc. 35, 34, 14. Hiltan capulum, Wrt. Voc. 84, 21. Swá ðæt ða hiltan eodon intó ðam innoþe the haft went in after the blade, Jud. 3, 22. Óþ ða hiltan capulotenus, Mone Gl. 432. [O. H. Ger. helza capulus.] hilte

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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