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The haft is the handle of an axe, a knife, or another hand weapon — the part you hold, usually wood, fitted to the head or blade. It is a rather old or craft word; in everyday talk people often just say handle. There is also a verb: to haft a blade is to fit it with a handle. Do not stretch it to mean any long pole; that is closer to shaft.
（斧、刀等的）柄；斧柄
組成From Middle English haft, from Old English hæft, from Proto-West Germanic *haftī, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją. It has long meant the handle you hold. The verb is the same word used as an action: to fit a haft onto a blade.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
haftnoun詞源 1/hæft/
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The handle of a tool or weapon.
- See this brandiſh'd Dagger: / […] / I'll bury to the haft, in her fair breaſt, / This Inſtrument of my Revenge.
haftverb詞源 1/hæft/
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To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon).
- Instead, they made finely crafted bone points to haft onto their spears, reserving the use of flint mostly for blades and scrapers.
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To grip by the handle.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。