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語源 1

From 中期英語 haft, from 古期英語 hæft, from Proto-West Germanic *haftī, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją.

名詞

haft (plural hafts)

1. 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.

同意語

• helve

下位語

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

動詞

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).
   • 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.

2. (transitive) To grip by the handle.

派生語

• haftable

語源 2

See heft (etymology 3).

名詞

haft (plural hafts)

1. (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”).

動詞

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

1. (ambitransitive, 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, Jedediah 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.

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アナグラム

• Fath