different between hilt vs uphilt

English

Etymology

From Middle English hilt, hilte, from Old English hilt, hilte, from Proto-Germanic *helt?, *helt?, *helt?, *hiltij?, (compare Old Norse hjalt, Old High German helza, Old Saxon helta), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to strike, cut”) (see holt).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

hilt (plural hilts)

1. The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.

   Synonym: haft

   Meronyms: grip, guard, crossguard, quillons, pommel

   Holonym: sword

   • 2009, James Drewe, Tàijí Jiàn 32-Posture Sword Form, Singing Dragon (?ISBN)

     A partial tang does not extend all the way through the hilt and is normally not more than half the width of the blade. The length of the tang and the width, particularly where it narrows before entering the pommel, vary from sword to sword.

2. The base of the penis.

Derived terms

• to the hilt

Translations

Verb

hilt (third-person singular simple present hilts, present participle hilting, simple past and past participle hilted)

1. (transitive) To provide with a hilt.
2. (transitive) To insert (a bodily extremity) as far as it can go into a sexual orifice so that it is impeded by the wider base to which it is attached (finger until palm, penis until pelvis).
   • 2015 Kitsune page 41

     his fingers hilted inside

   • 2017 Hot Wife's Secret Sex Life page 25

     He hilted himself inside her.

Anagrams

• -lith, Lith., lith, lith-

Middle English

Noun

hilt (plural hiltes)

1. Alternative form of hilte (“hilt”)

Verb

hilt

1. Alternative form of hiled: past participle of hilen (“to cover”)

English

Etymology

From up- +? hilt.

Verb

uphilt (third-person singular simple present uphilts, present participle uphilting, simple past and past participle uphilted)

1. (archaic) To thrust in up to the hilt

   to uphilt one's sword into an enemy

References

• uphilt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.