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Hilt

A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.

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Grip 76% connected

The griffin.

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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Blade 70% connected

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

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Brand 70% connected

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

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Dagger 70% connected

A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.

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Steel 70% connected

A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one…

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Sticker 70% connected

One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.

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Sword 70% connected

An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, r…

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Knob 70% connected

A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.

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Pommel 70% connected

A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form

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