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
noun
definition
A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.
Examples of hafts in a Sentence
Most strapped spades, forks and shovels have hafts with curved points.
Wooden wedges (see replacing hafts and handles ). Rivets.
His belongings, found piled up near the mine, seem to have included a combined bow-case and quiver and a sword sheath, each covered with plates of gold of Greek work, three swords with gold hafts, a hone with gold mounting, a whip, many other gold plates and a heap of arrow-heads.
Cutler's cement, used for fixing knife-blades in their hafts, is made of equal parts of brick-dust and melted rosin, or of 4 parts of rosin with i each of beeswax and brick-dust.