The hilt is composed of the crossguard, handle and pommel.
A sword's handle is called the 'hilt'.
It is called the hilt. (:
The handle on a sword is called a Hilt
A basket hilt is a style of sword hilt which surrounds and protects the hand.
Hilt-handel The sword was useless after the hilt broke off.
Walloon hilt, the Sinclair hilt, Schiavona, Mortuary Sword and Scottish ClaymoreSources:WIKIPEDIA
A sword has a blade and a hilt; the hilt consists of the crossguard (or just "guard"), the grip, and the pommel.
There are likely an infinite number of possible grammatically correct sentences containing the word "hilt", including this one, and your original question. There is a smaller infinity of possible grammatically correct sentences containing the word "hilt" referring to the part of a sword handle in the English language, but examples should not be difficult to generate. The knight held tight to the hilt of his sword as the dragon swiftly approached. To stab someone up to the hilt with a sword, one must thrust it all the way in to that part of the sword that separates blade from grip, only the hilt preventing it from going further into the body. Today one can be involved in a scheme or plot of some kind and "up to the hilt" means very much involved.
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the hilt
The sword is a standard katana sword that has a black and silver hilt with a sliver-grey blade. It has some dangling bits from the hilt which are silver.
That's quite a nice decorative hilt on that sword.