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Jon picked up a dagger blade, featherlight and shiny black, hiltless.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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.

From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Noyes, George Rapall

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

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Pilot is the Saxon lord, posing as the seated figure of legal authority, poising a hiltless sword in his right hand.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall