noun
definition
The handle of a tool or weapon.
verb
definition
To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle
Examples of haft in a Sentence
He spent 88% of this time making the haft, socket and strands.
It is a small, socketed ax head with a loop underneath it for binding it to a wooden haft.
Then knock out the remains of the old haft, using a hammer and punch or blunt chisel.
If the stump comes out in one piece use it as a visual guide to the shaping of the new haft.
Clamp the haft vertically in the vise, and using a tenon saw, cut a slot about half the depth of the socket.
The straps have some flexibility, but the new haft must be shaved down to the same dimensions as the old one.
Blessed is Pat man fiat haft not gone in fie counsell of wicked men, and in fie weye of sinfull men hap not stonde, and in fie chaire of pestilence sat not.
As for the date of composition, it is evident, from the conflicting statements in the different MSS., that there must have been an earlier and a later recension, the former belonging to 587-589 A.H., and dedicated to the prince of Mosul, `Izz-uddin Mas`ud, the latter made for the atabeg Nusrat-uddin Abu Bakr of Azerbaijan after 593 A.H., since we find in it a mention of Nizaml's last romance Haft Paikar, or the "Seven Beauties," which comprises seven tales related by the seven favourite wives of the Sassanian king Bahramgur.
The five mathnawis, from the Makhzan to the Haft Paikar, form Nizami's so-called "Quintuple" (Khamsa) or "Five Treasures" (Panj Ganj), and have been taken as pattern by all the later epic poets in the Persian, Turkish, Chaghatai and Hindustani languages.
His three diwans (1479-1491) contain his lyrical poems and odes; among his prose writings the chief is his Baharistan (" Spring-garden") (1487); and his collection of romantic poems, Haft Aurang (" Seven Thrones"), contains the Salaman wa Absal and his Yusuf wa Zalikha (Joseph and Potiphar's wife).