hiltless

Lower lip quivering, Nomscul pulled the rusted blade from a hiltless dagger and a mold-encrusted pendant from the pockets inside his furry vest and held them toward Flint.

Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

What remained in his hand was a strong steel blade, three hands long, notched at the hiltless end.

The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

What remained in his hand was a strong steel blade, three hands long, notched at the hiltless end.

The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

Lower lip quivering, Nomscul pulled the rusted blade from a hiltless dagger and a mold-encrusted pendant from the pockets inside his furry vest and held them toward Flint.

Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990

The hiltless tang and the battered places on the sheath where the gold had been torn off bore mute witness to the lust for gold of the Empire's servants.

Flying Colours Forester, C. S. 1938

He performed prodigies of valour, and his long hiltless Arab sabre was stained deeply with the blood of his foes.

Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Bracebridge Hemyng 1871

"Sharkh" = in dicts. the unpolished blade of a hiltless sword.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Here lay a rusty, hiltless sabre, there a sword with no belt; they must have been selecting weapons from this rubbish, and have ransacked even the old armouries.

Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 Adam Mickiewicz 1826

_afulu sama sama_ and _afulu lanu uli_ (yellow and purple mullet) are certain to be found; and, as the little craft slips along, a large gar -- green-backed, silvery-sided, and more than a yard long -- may dart after you like a gleaming, hiltless rapier skimming the surface of the water.

A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904 Louis Becke 1884