haft Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the handle of a weapon or tool
    helve.

WordNet

Haft noun
Etymology
AS. hæft; akin to D. & G. heft, Icel. hepti, and to E. Heave, or have. Cf. Heft.
Definitions
  1. A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt.
    This brandish'dagger I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast. Dryden.
  2. A dwelling. Scot. Jamieson.
Haft transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger.

Webster 1913