HAFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does haft mean? 

• HAFT (noun)
  The noun HAFT has 1 sense:

1. the handle of a weapon or tool

  Familiarity information: HAFT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAFT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The handle of a weapon or tool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

haft; helve

Hypernyms ("haft" is a kind of...):

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)

Holonyms ("haft" is a part of...):

awl (a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes)

ax; axe (an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle)

dagger; sticker (a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing)

file (a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal)

knife (edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle)

reap hook; reaping hook; sickle (an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle)

blade; brand; steel; sword (a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard)

 Context examples 

His knees were drawn up, his hands thrown out in agony, and from the centre of his broad, brown, upturned throat there projected the white haft of a knife driven blade-deep into his body.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ben, in his long, lonely wanderings about the island, had found the skeleton—it was he that had rifled it; he had found the treasure; he had dug it up (it was the haft of his pick-axe that lay broken in the excavation); he had carried it on his back, in many weary journeys, from the foot of the tall pine to a cave he had on the two-pointed hill at the north-east angle of the island, and there it had lain stored in safety since two months before the arrival of the HISPANIOLA.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)