hafting
- present participle of haft.
Example Sentences
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Neanderthals in Italy may also have used pine tree resin for hafting 50,000 years ago.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2019
Many of the axes were grooved for hafting; one of the specimens was doubly grooved and had two cutting edges.
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 Fewkes, Jesse Walter
The manner of hafting them is quite clear, as a few hafted examples have been found.
From The Bronze Age in Ireland by Coffey, George
No. 65886 is distinguished by raised square at butt to facilitate hafting.
Bronze celts, evolution of, 23; hafting of, 24, 25; ornamentation of, 25, 26.
From The Bronze Age in Ireland by Coffey, George
