haft
English
editPronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /hæft/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɑːft/
Audio (Northern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːft, -æft
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English haft, from Old English hæft, from Proto-West Germanic *haftī, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją.
Noun
edithaft (plural hafts)
- The handle of a tool or weapon.
- 1679, [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, Oedipus: A Tragedy. […], London: […] R. Bentley and M. Magnes […], →OCLC, Act V, page 74:
- See this brandiſh'd Dagger: / […] / I'll bury to the haft, in her fair breaſt, / This Inſtrument of my Revenge.
Synonyms
editHyponyms
editTranslations
edithandle
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Verb
edithaft (third-person singular simple present hafts, present participle hafting, simple past and past participle hafted)
- (transitive) To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon).
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 218:
- Instead, they made finely crafted bone points to haft onto their spears, reserving the use of flint mostly for blades and scrapers.
- (transitive) To grip by the handle.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editfit a handle
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Etymology 2
editNoun
edithaft (plural hafts)
- (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative spelling of heft (“piece of pastureland which farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) have become accustomed to; flock or group of farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) which have become accustomed to a particular piece of pastureland”)
Verb
edithaft (third-person singular simple present hafts, present participle hafting, simple past and past participle hafted)
- (transitive, intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) Alternative spelling of heft (“(transitive) to accustom (a flock or group of farm animals, chiefly cattle or sheep) to a piece of pastureland; to establish or settle (someone) in an occupation or place of residence; to establish or plant (something) firmly in a place; (intransitive, reflexive) of a thing: to establish or settle itself in a place”)
- 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 28:
- […] I hae heard him say, that the root of the matter was mair deeply hafted in that wild muirland parish than in the Canogate of Edinburgh.
- […] I had heard him say, that the root of the matter was more deeply hafted in that wild moorland parish than in the Canongate of Edinburgh.
References
edit- ^ Compare “haft, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “haft, v.3”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
Anagrams
editDanish
editPronunciation
editVerb
edithaft
- past participle of have
Icelandic
editPronunciation
editNoun
edithaft n (genitive singular hafts, nominative plural höft)
- (of a horse) hobble
- (in the plural) restrictions
- (anatomy) frenulum
- (genetics, of a chromosome) constriction
Declension
editdeclension of haft
Derived terms
edit- 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)
Old Norse
editParticiple
edithaft
Verb
edithaft
Polish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle High German haft, from Old High German hafta, from Proto-Germanic *haftō.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithaft m inan (diminutive hafcik)
- embroidery (ornamentation of fabric using needlework)
- Synonym: hafciarstwo
- embroidery (piece of embroidered fabric)
- Synonym: dzierganie
- (colloquial) pavement pizza (patch of vomit on the pavement, road or ground)
- (colloquial, derogatory) worthless product of creative activities performed without much ambition
Declension
editDeclension of haft
Derived terms
editadjective
nouns
verbs
- haftować impf
- wyhaftować pf
Related terms
editnouns
verbs
- obhaftować pf
- obhaftowywać impf
- pohaftować pf
- uhaftować pf
- zahaftować pf
- zahaftowywać impf
Further reading
editScots
editEtymology
editNoun
edithaft (plural hafts)
- Alternative spelling of heft
Swedish
editPronunciation
editVerb
edithaft
Talysh
editEtymology
editCognate with Persian هفت (haft).
Numeral
edithaft
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