Definition of haft

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Haft (n.) 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..

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Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A pole, especially a Maypole..
Semiplume :: Semiplume (n.) A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather..
Brattice :: Brattice (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
Bank :: Bank (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank..
Indicator :: Indicator (n.) A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc..
Aftershaft :: Aftershaft (n.) The hypoptilum.
Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet..
Stemson :: Stemple (n.) A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step..
Haft :: Haft (v. t.) To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger..
Collar :: Collar (n.) A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars..
Groomer :: Groomer (n.) One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses..
Hyporadius :: Hyporadius (n.) One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather..
Stulp :: Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.
Rhachis :: Rhachis (n.) The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis..
Wiper :: Wiper (n.) A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam..
Lug :: Lug (n.) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
Lodge :: Lodge (n.) The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt..
Drop :: Drop (n.) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
Fang :: Fang (v. t.) A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course..
Rocker :: Rocker (n.) Same as Rock shaft.
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