hilt

• I felt around for the hilt, and something very moist and heavy hit me in the middle of my back. —  1
• On the hilt was the sign for joy and the sign for the power of sparkling mirrors, and I knew that, just as the president, Humble-Master, was the poet called Uncertainties, I was to be the poet called Joy. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
• Around the cross of the hilt was a circular gold hand-guard: the Sword of the Circle-Cross. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2002
• Perched atop the hilt was a wingless dragon or lizard, its long tail wrapped along the length of the hilt, holding it in place. —  Witch Gate.htm
• And the dagger lashed forward so quickly that the thing had no chance to get out of the way, and to Crawford it looked as though the obstruction of the hilt was all that prevented Josephine from driving her fist right through the figure. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard

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