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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



... is one that is nearer and nigher To the noblest of dames than her lover: With the haft of the helm is he smitten On the hat-block—and fairly amidships! The false heir of Eystein—he falters— He falls in the poop of his galley! Nay! steer not upon me, O Steingerd, Though stoutly ye carry ...
— The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald • Unknown

... violent expansion of Fisette's chest worked palpitating beneath the great arms, and, just ere endurance reached its limit and the trees began to swim before Manson's eyes, his little finger touched the haft of the sheath knife that hung at Fisette's back. The touch ran through Fisette's laboring frame like fire, for he had reached the point where the world seemed dipped in blood. Slowly Manson pushed down his hand, never relaxing his titanic embrace. But the ...
— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan

... shortest limb about thee, and I prophesy that it will bring thee into disgrace with Father Francis, as once about the black-eyed Syrian wench. But here comes the horn. Be active a bit, man, wilt thou, and just force open his teeth with the haft of thy dudgeon-dagger." ...
— The Talisman • Sir Walter Scott

... the stern-sheets, making that terrifying face which had daunted his fellow-countrymen, the great Tarasconian feverishly fumbled with his hunting-knife haft; for, despite what Barbassou had told him, he was only half at ease as regarded the intention of these ebony-skinned porters, who so little resembled their honest mates ...
— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet

... The other Indian at the same instant had fired at the white man and then sprang forward to finish him with his tomahawk. Mrs. Pentry flew to the rescue and just as the savage lifted his arm to brain his foe, she drove her hunting knife to the haft into his spine. ...
— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler


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