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Haft   /hæft/   Listen
noun
Haft  n.  
1.
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. "This brandish'd dagger I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast."
2.
A dwelling. (Scot.)


verb
Haft  v. t.  To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger.





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"Haft" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mindanao, like their clothes, are manufactured by themselves. The spears and campilans are said to be finely tempered. They themselves adjust the dies for their pataquias. The sheaths, like the hafts of their krises, are of gold richly engraved. The haft of the kris used by Dato Ayuman of Tabiran was of solid gold, and was engraved with sentences from the Koran in Arabic characters. The usual weapons are: campilans, krises (straight and wavy), machetes, bolos, ligdaos, sundanes, various kinds of spears, balaraos, and badis. They use coats-of-mail ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin
... wanderings about the island, had found the skeleton. It was he that had rifled it; he had found the treasure; he had dug it up (it was the haft of his pickax that lay broken in the excavation); he had carried it on his back, in many weary journeys, from the foot of the tall pine to a cave he had on the two-pointed hill at the northeast angle of the island, and there it had lain ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... a step; his face blanched as white as the cloth; his left arm lifted, and his right hand grasping the haft of ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... after special patterns, and with national mottoes, no handles are ever sent, as the backwoodsmen have better wood for their purpose at command. Our axe handles are stiff; a backwoodsman must have a flexible handle or haft. ...
— Rides on Railways • Samuel Sidney
... water-side; and when thou comest there I charge thee throw my sword in that water, and come again and tell me what thou there seest." "My lord," said Sir Bedivere, "your commandment shall be done." So Sir Bedivere departed, and by the way he beheld that noble sword, that the pommel and the haft were all of precious stones; and then he said to himself, "If I throw this rich sword into the water no good shall come thereof, but only harm and loss." And then Sir Bedivere hid Excalibar under a tree. And so, as soon as he might, he came again to the king. "What ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch


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