haft
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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hafts,
present (3rd person singular)
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hafted,
past participle, past
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hafting
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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haftsimple
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haftssimple
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have haftedperfect
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has haftedperfect
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am haftingprogressive
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are haftingprogressive
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is haftingprogressive
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have been haftingperfect progressive
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has been haftingperfect progressive
Past
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haftedsimple
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had haftedperfect
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was haftingprogressive
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were haftingprogressive
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had been haftingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of haft
before 1000; Middle English; Old English hæft handle, literally, that which is taken, grasped; cognate with Latin captus, German Heft han-dle
Example Sentences
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The team used it to successfully haft two flint arrowheads to wooden handles.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 22, 2024
Durkhanai Ayubi laughed as she recalled peeling walnuts as a child for haft mewa, a beloved Nowruz dish of her native Afghanistan.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
And, of course, there is haft mewa, full of nuts and dried fruit for prosperity.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
UC Riverside led by as many as 13 points in the second haft, but Washington cut it to 44-38 with 9:03 remaining.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 1, 2020
Thor reached down without glancing away, and his fingers closed around the haft of his hammer.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
In unearthed knife hafts shaped like seals, in villagers’ stories of cranes and walruses, the human and natural coalesce.
From Nature ● Sep. 15, 2019
Some horns are used in alternative medicine that has no effect; others are turned into the hafts of ornate knives or other decorative artifacts.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2018
William and Anders nearly broke the shovel hafts prying the oblong thing from the earth.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2016
White knife hafts are sawed out of them for the cutlers.”
From Scientific American ● Nov. 22, 2011
The hafts of the tools were stained black with the sweat of us all, our contributions, black and white alike.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
One of the most remarkable discoveries at Xigou was evidence of hafted stone tools, representing the earliest known composite tools in East Asia.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2026
The study 'Technological innovations and hafted technology in central China ~160,000-72,000 years ago' has been published in Nature Communications.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2026
But at Lomekwi, where Kenyanthropus was found, Harmand and her team unearthed crude stone tools from 3.3 million years ago, early enough for either Kenyanthropus or an Australopithecus to have hafted them.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
The pebbles had been broken into tiny stones with sharp edges, hafted onto bone handles, and likely used for scraping hides, boring wood, and whittling plants.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 2, 2022
Stonesnake gestured at the long- hafted axe that lay beside her sleeping furs.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Neanderthals in Italy may also have used pine tree resin for hafting 50,000 years ago.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2019
There were one or two stone hammers, grooved for hafting, like the ax.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes
The manner of hafting the socketed celts is well shown by a handled socketed celt found at Edenderry, King’s Co., and formerly in the Murray collection.
From The Bronze Age in Ireland by George Coffey
They are long, leaf-like flakes, triangular in section, slightly worked down by flaking, sharpened by grinding at the point, and slightly notched at the top, perhaps for hafting.
From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by William Henry Holmes
Bronze celts, evolution of, 23; hafting of, 24, 25; ornamentation of, 25, 26.
From The Bronze Age in Ireland by George Coffey
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