切せっ羽ぱ

noun

thin washer on a sword guard

Technical term for a thin metal washer placed on either side of the tsuba (guard) of a Japanese sword. Not commonly encountered outside of sword-related contexts.

• 刀かたなの鍔つばの両りょう側がわに切せっ羽ぱがはめられている。

  Thin washers are fitted on both sides of the sword guard.

noun

up to the hilt; at wits' end

Used almost exclusively in the idiomatic expression 切羽詰まる (せっぱつまる), meaning to be driven to the wall or at one's wits' end. The standalone noun 切羽 is rare in this sense.

See also: 切羽詰まる

• 「切せっ羽ぱ詰つまる」という表ひょう現げんで、追おい詰つめられた状じょう態たいを表あらわす。

  The expression 切羽詰まる describes a state of being driven into a corner.