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hafting

  • present participle
    of haft.
    haft
    noun
    a handle, especially of a knife, sword, or dagger.

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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 Jesse Walter Fewkes

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

No. 65886 is distinguished by raised square at butt to facilitate hafting.

From Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594 by James Stevenson

Bronze celts, evolution of, 23; hafting of, 24, 25; ornamentation of, 25, 26.

From The Bronze Age in Ireland by George Coffey