Definitions for haft

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Spelling: [haft, hahft]
IPA: /hæft, hɑft/

Haft is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in haft (afht).

Definitions for haft

noun

  1. a handle, especially of a knife, sword, or dagger.

verb (used with object)

  1. to furnish with a haft or handle; set in a haft.

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

Examples for haft

But I tells you dis: Schults will haft nodding to do mit dem.

It was red, blade and haft, and so was the hand that clasped it.

I grasped the haft of my knife, and like a tiger stood cowering on the spring.

Thus arose the "haft qir,at," or seven readings of the Qurn, now recognised.

Three times he struck the shield with the haft and three times with the blade of his spear.

Lo, here is the knife that was struck in my side up to the haft.'

As it struck, the haft flew from the spear and bounded down the slope.

From one sheath a haft of gold projected and from the other one of silver.

He held the knife by the haft in the right hand, and the chip of wood in his left.

There it had been when the haft slipped from his hands, and there had it remained.

Word Value for haft
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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