haft

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːft

Etymology 1

From Old English hæft.

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

handle

• Dutch: heft (nl) n, greep (nl) m, handvat (nl) n, handgreep m
• Georgian: ვადა (ka) (vada)
• Russian: ручка (ru) f (rúčka), рукоятка (ru) f (rukojátka), черенок (ru) m (čerenók)

• Scottish Gaelic: lurgann f
• Spanish: empuñadura (es) m, asidero m

Verb

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

1. To fit a handle to a tool or weapon.

Translations

fit a handle

• Dutch: er een handvat aanzetten, vatten (nl)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hefð.

Alternative forms

• heft

Noun

haft (plural hafts)

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

Translations

mountain pasture

• Dutch: alpenweide, alm (nl) f

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haft/
  • Rhymes: -aft

Noun

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

Derived terms

• 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)

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Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse hefð.

Noun

haft (plural hafts)

1. Alternative spelling of heft.

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Swedish

Verb

haft

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