(n.) A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) The claw of a hammer was placed beneath the hilt of the knife for additional leverage, and the weapon was thereupon successfully removed.
(2) The magnificent bronze Beaune Dirk is a princely dagger, but could not have been intended for practical use: the blade was never sharpened, nor the end drilled to attach a wooden hilt.
(3) Analyse what we do best and invest in our talents to the hilt.
(4) This man’s “private life” is subsidised to the hilt by the taxpayer, and that is what really sticks in the craw.
(5) Since launching the war on terror, the US and its allies have attacked and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq; bombed Libya; killed thousands in drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia; imposed devastating sanctions; backed Israel's occupation and dispossession of the Palestinians to the hilt; carried out large-scale torture, kidnapping and internment without trial; maintained multiple bases to protect client dictatorships throughout the region; and now threaten Iran with another act of illegal war.
(6) But instead the US, Britain and other European powers finance, arm and back to the hilt Israel's occupation, including the siege of Gaza – precisely to prevent Palestinians obtaining the arms that would allow them to protect themselves against Israeli military might.
(7) There are some that are mortgaged up to the hilt, and that’s dangerous stuff.
(8) Canada does not mind other jurisdictions taxing their banks to the hilt, but it has no desire to impose a levy on its own banks, which after all, did not need bailing out.
(9) But Thatcher would have backed Hammond to the hilt.
(10) "And all of them, every single one of them, are prepared to go to the hilt in order to isolate Russia with respect to this invasion," Kerry said.
(11) In stark contrast to her approach to domestic affairs, Thatcher scrupulously deferred to her military commanders and supported their decisions to the hilt.
(12) Employment law has become ridiculously opaque and employers take full advantage of that and arrive lawyered up to the hilt.
(13) That makes it an enticing prospect for Glazer-style financing - mortgage a rock-solid asset up to the hilt in order to crank up the potential returns.
(14) He pledged anew that Nato partners including those that border Ukraine or Russia would be defended to the hilt if their sovereignty is threatened.
(15) Yet one in six households are currently mortgaged to the hilt, servicing home loans that are at least four times the size of their annual salary, in further evidence of the intense vulnerability of many homeowners to rate hikes.
(16) The latter was praised to the hilt for display against Uruguay, with his Colombia coach, José Pékerman, saying Rodríguez has “every attribute of a top-notch player at a world level” and that he “never had any doubts that this was going to be his World Cup”.
(17) Three guilty of Hatton Garden heist as Kenneth Noye link revealed Read more The other, Brian Reader, aimed a kick at the man: John Fordham, a specialist police surveillance officer, who had been stabbed five times in the front and five times in the back, with such force that a knife was plunged into his body up to its hilt.
(18) Bayern Munich 3-0 Barcelona (Robben 73) I've defended those blokes with the wands behind the goal to the hilt, but I'm not going to attempt it here.
(19) We have to fight for every penny we get, but then we spend it to the hilt on the pupils.
(20) He added that G8 nations and some other countries are “prepared to go to the hilt to isolate Russia” with a “broad array of options” available.
Kilt
Definition:
() p. p. from Kill.
(n.) A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg.
(v. t.) To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the Fiji summit, delegates wearing Sulu va Taga, a type of traditional kilt, and floral shirts spell out the problems and what must be done.
(2) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
(3) Also, Birdman = 21st century Kurgan June 19, 2013 I first read this as "Put Birdman in a kilt..." and almost auto-blocked you.
(4) "Supporting Pakistan or the Windies at cricket is no more evidence that someone has failed to integrate than wearing a kilt to a wedding is proof of Jacobite sympathies.
(5) Kilt-inspired skirts and dresses, sometimes in leather, also had a modern edge.
(6) "The slogan is from Scotland to the world, and it is not a sense of everything has to have a kilt in it.
(7) "As I came through Highbury & Islington tube station at lunchtime today, the number of be-kilted Scotsman who were queueing up for photos outside the Famous Cock Tavern with irony intent was surely greater than the most optimistic YES vote," reports Stuey X.
(8) The second model portrayed a topless Salmond wearing a kilt and sitting on a bucket of North Sea oil.
(9) I've been spraytanned, waxed, and in a kilt clutching roses trawled a Glasgow council estate trying to propose to Susan Boyle (I did.
(10) Where you can be Welsh and Hindu and British, Northern Irish and Jewish and British, where you can wear a kilt and a turban, where you can wear a hijab covered in poppies.
(11) He then spotted a Scot in a kilt, 51-year-old John McGurk.
(12) The day before he had given me tea and a boiled sweet, told me he admired my journey, laughed at a photograph of my father in his kilt and discussed Persian poetry.
(13) April 1962 Aged 13, moves to his father's old school Gordonstoun, in Aberdeenshire, later describing it as "a prison sentence" and "Colditz in kilts".
(14) Profile David McAllister proposed to his wife at Loch Ness, married in a kilt, he likes Irn Bru, shortbread, and porridge and takes milk in his tea.
(15) It's hard not to be surprised by his demeanour, perhaps because the image of Drummond fixed in the public imagination comes from the KLF's final, triumphant performance at the 1992 Brit awards, during which he lurched around the stage on crutches, smoking a cigar and wearing a kilt, then fired a machine gun loaded with blanks at the audience and dumped a dead sheep outside the after-party.
(16) So fringe is that policy – Reaganomics with a kilt on – that even the CBI in Scotland have been unwilling to endorse it.
(17) She has no partner, and lives with friends in Manchester, where she hand-makes kilts and finds support on the Facebook page of the Younger Breast Cancer Network .
(18) Michael Ghirelli Hillesden, Buckinghamshire • I can’t work out whether was it to antagonise the yes camp or the no camp that you let Fintan O’Toole loose on your pages ( Forget Braveheart, kilts and tribal nationalism, this is about democracy , 13 September).
(19) Trent Lott won the Celebrity Mongering award for putting on a kilt - nurse!
(20) Here's Denis Law sporting an excellent kilt on the way to the airport to be a pundit at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.