haft

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hæft/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɑːft/
• Rhymes: -ɑːft, -æft

From Old English hæft, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją.

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.

• hilt (sword handle)
• stale, stail, stele, steal (axe handle)

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

1. (transitive) To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon).

From Old Norse hefð.

• heft

haft (plural hafts)

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

• Fath

• IPA^(key): /haft/
  • Rhymes: -aft

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

• aukahaft (secondary constriction)
• baklituhaft (posterior synechia)
• baugslituhaft (annular synechia)
• dausgarnarlokuhaft (frenulum valvae ilealis)
• dreift þráðhaft (diffuse centromere)
• efrivararhaft (frenulum labii superioris)
• forhúðarhaft (frenulum preputii penis)
• 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)

From Middle High German haft (“chain link”).

• Audio

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IPA^(key): /xaft/

haft m inan

1. embroidery

• haftować

• haft in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Norse hefð.

haft (plural hafts)

1. Alternative spelling of heft

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaft/

haft

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