Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A handle or hilt, especially the handle of a tool or weapon.
- v. To fit into or equip with a hilt or handle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A handle; specifically, the handle of a cutting or thrusting instrument, as a knife, sword, or dagger; a hilt.
- To set in a haft; furnish with a handle.
- To drive up to the haft or hilt, as a knife or dirk.
- To fix or settle firmly; plant.
- n. A place of abode; dwelling; lodging.
Wiktionary
- n. Northern England A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.
- n. The handle of a tool or weapon.
- v. To fit a handle to a tool or weapon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt.
- n. Scot. A dwelling.
- v. To set in, or furnish with, a haft.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the handle of a weapon or tool
Etymologies
- Old English hæft, Old High German heften make fast. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English hæft; see kap- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The weapon is constructed of at least one ball which is attached to a haft by a metal chain.”
“Tantlatch continued to drum on the spear-haft, and gave no sign that he had heard.”
“I like rifles that r acurate right out of the box becals i dont haft to use that much ammo to make shure ther on target”
“In his other hand, he reached in his robe and found the haft of a filleting knife.”
“Grayson Leading In REPUBLICAN Primary yes thats right over haft of the repugs in his district will vote for him”
“Grayson Leading In REPUBLICAN Primary yes thats right over haft of the repugs in his district will vote for him.”
“So you saying that Fox lies and only gives haft truths? interesting.”
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“In response, Harald said, “If I am so weak as not to be able to wield a sword … let my hand be tied to the haft.””
““Mine,” Magnus said, stepping on the haft and driving the blade deeper through his spine.”
“I watch all the game and maybe 85% of commercials during the game and none at haft time.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘haft’.
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Stalking Darkness
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Stalking Darkness.
inquest, halyard, catamount, occlude, founder, more, grouse, grapple, water butt, antepenultimate, palimpsest, hob and 196 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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ideas out loud
bandwagon, middle, via, web, fly, thru, safety, thor, swoosh, top, network effect, matrix and 200 more...
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Ute
Durable items invented by Hom. Sap.
alpenhorn, matchbox, plinth, pillow, cantilever, fulcrum, troika, cloverleaf, nib, wheelbarrow, dictabelt, cockpit and 184 more...
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Petersburg
Words I disovered in Andrei Bely's "Petersburg."
apropos, demimonde, hussar, nuptial, triality, piquant, batiste, peregrination, appurtenance, tabouret, haft, censer and 11 more...
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household words
oikonomia, domain, menage, mansion, manor, manse, demesne, menial, arsenal, haft, decumbence, katoikountes and 68 more...
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The Satanic Verses
A list containing unknown words from the novel!
ell, usurer, shrewd, tortuous, brazier, burnished, myrrh, gait, lilt, spurt, navel, wane and 69 more...
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