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to haft

to haft

1 8.9
To attach a handle to a blade or tool
  • verb
  • /hæft/
  • Specialized
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  • The craftsman was skilled at hafting blades to wooden handles for his knives.

Examples

  • This spear point is one of many that shows evidence of being "hafted"—attached to a shaft from the Kathu Pan 1 site in South Africa.

    Blog text (28)

  • Chuck sits by the fire, hafting a stone knife onto a wooden haft.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • She spent the afternoon hafting tools to improve their usability in the garden.

  • To ensure the spear was effective, they focused on hafting the arrowhead tightly to its shaft.

Surface Forms

haft infinitive
hafted past
hafted past participle
hafting present participle
hafts third person singular

Etymology

The verb haft comes from the same old root and meant putting on a 'handle' so something can be 'held'. So to haft is to attach a handle to a blade, tool, or weapon.