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hafts, plural;
  1. Provide (a blade, ax head, or spearhead) with a haft

Noun
  1. The handle of a knife, ax, or spear

  1. the handle of a weapon or tool
  2. The hilt (sometimes called the haft) of a sword is its handle, consisting of a guard, grip and pommel. The guard may contain a crossguard or quillons. A tassel or sword knot may be attached to the guard or pommel.
  3. Hafting is a process by which an artifact, often bone, metal, or stone, is attached to a handle or strap. This makes the artifact more useful by allowing it to be fired (as in the case of an arrowhead), thrown (as a spear), or leveraged more effectively (as an axe or adze).
  4. (HAFTED (or HAFT)) The heraldic term used when the handle of a hammer or an axe/mace (or of a similar tool/weapon) is of a different tincture to its head – but see ‘hilted’ (also ‘barbed’, ‘garnished’, ‘shafted’ and ‘tincture’). ...
  5. (hafted) attached with a binding to a shaft or handle (e.g. a "hafted knife").
  6. (hafting) the method used to attach projectile points to their wooden shafts. Animal sinew was a common material
  7. To attach a shaft or handle to a projectile or knife blade. To provide with a handle.
  8. Area to each side of the beard, also called shoulder
  9. area of a point fixed to a shaft by glue or by binding it with sinew, leather, or a twisted vegetable cord and then covering it with ‘pitch’ or pine tar to keep it firmly in place.
  10. Area of the fall extending from the heart out about 1/2 to 1 1/2 inches.
  11. A handle for a cutting tool. To supply with a handle.
  12. The upper part of falls that connects to rest of flower; shoulders next to beards.