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Webster 1913 Edition

Haft

Haft

(hȧft)
,
Noun.
[AS.
hæft
; akin to D. & G.
heft
, Icel.
hepti
, and to E.
heave
, or
have
. Cf.
Heft
.]
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.
Dryden.
2.
A dwelling.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.

Haft

,
Verb.
T.
To set in, or furnish with, a haft;
as, to
haft
a dagger
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Haft

H`AFT

,
Noun.
[L. capio.] A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel which is taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used. It is used chiefly for the part of a sword or dagger by which it is held; the hilt.

H`AFT

,
Verb.
T.
To set in a haft; to furnish with a handle.

Definition 2024

Haft

Haft

See also: haft and -haft

German

Noun

Haft f ‎(genitive Haft, no plural)

  1. custody, imprisonment

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ “Haft” in: Friedrich Kluge, “Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache” , 22. Auflage, 1989, bearbeitet von Elmar Seebold, ISBN 3-11-006800-1

haft

haft

See also: Haft and -haft

English

Noun

haft ‎(plural hafts)

  1. The handle of a tool or weapon.
    • Dryden
      This brandish'd dagger / I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast.
Synonyms
Translations

Verb

haft ‎(third-person singular simple present hafts, present participle hafting, simple past and past participle hafted)

  1. To fit a handle to a tool or weapon.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hefð.

Alternative forms

Noun

haft ‎(plural hafts)

  1. (Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.
Translations

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haft/
    • Rhymes: -aft

Noun

haft n ‎(genitive singular hafts, nominative plural höft)

  1. (of a horse) hobble
  2. (in the plural) restrictions
  3. (anatomy) frenulum
  4. (genetics, of a chromosome) constriction

Derived terms

  • aukahaft (secondary constriction)
  • baklituhaft (posterior synechia)
  • baugslituhaft (annular synechia)
  • dausgarnarlokuhaft (frenulum valvae ilealis)
  • dreift þráðhaft (diffuse centromere)
  • efrivararhaft (frenulum labii superioris)
  • forhúðarhaft (frenulum preputii ****)
  • framlituhaft (anterior synechia)
  • fylgiþráðhaft (centromerus comitans)
  • hæðarhaft (altitude hold)
  • haftaskurður (synechotomy)
  • haftasvæði (restricted area)
  • haft efra mænukylfutjalds (frenulum veli medullaris superioris)
  • ljósstreymisstuðull straumhafts (ballast lumen factor)
  • meðalhaftlengd (mean free path)
  • meyjarhaft (hymen)
  • meyjarhaftsdoppur (carunculae hymenales)
  • neðrivararhaft (frenulum labii inferioris)
  • oplaust meyjarhaft (imperforate hymen)
  • skapabarmahaft (frenulum labiorum pudendi)
  • snípshaft (frenulum clitoridis)
  • þráðhaft (centromere)
  • þráðhaftskúla (spherula centromeri)
  • þráðhaftslaus (acentric)
  • tunguhaft (frenulum linguae; ankyloglossia, tongue-tie)

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse hefð.

Noun

haft ‎(plural hafts)

  1. Alternative spelling of heft

Swedish

Verb

haft

  1. supine of ha.
  2. supine of hava.

Etymology

From Old High German hafta

The German word Haft is the continuation of

Pronunciation

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