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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



... Lamfada, the Long Armed; Ogma, of the Sunlike Face; and Angus, the Young. They summoned the workers in bronze and the armorers, and bid them prepare sword and spear for battle, charging the makers of spear-haft and shield to perfect their work. The heralds also were ready to proclaim the rank of the warriors, and those skilled in healing herbs stood prepared to succor the wounded. The bards were there also to arouse valor and ardor with ...
— Ireland, Historic and Picturesque • Charles Johnston
... away down to the shore and ran out a six-oared boat, and held in his hand a great axe that he had with a haft overlaid with iron. He steps into the boat and rows out to the Bear-isles, and when he got there all the men had rowed away but Thorwald and his followers, and he stayed by the skiff to load her, while they brought the goods down to him. So Thiostolf came up just then and ...
— Njal's Saga • Unknown Icelanders
... live and move are merely meat to fill the aching pit in their swollen bellies. But there were in the old days other deaths, far worse than what one meets under a snake-devil's claws and fangs. And those are the deaths we fear." He was running the smooth haft of his spear back and forth through his fingers as if testing the balance of the weapon because the time was not far away when he ...
— Star Born • Andre Norton
... he sprang up swiftly, and took the spear that she had shot through his buckler, and threw it back again with a great force. He thought, "I will not slay so fair a maiden," and he turned the spear, and hurled it wit the haft loud against her harness. From her mail, also, the sparks flew as on the wind, for Siegmund's child threw mightily; and her strength failed before the blow. King Gunther, I ween, ...
— The Fall of the Niebelungs • Unknown
... 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, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin


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