Hilte

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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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