The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
Source: tatoeba (920883)
Haft
//hæft//
Synonyms for "haft" (7 found)
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51 translations across 21 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λαβή noun (handle)
Bulgarian
2 entries- дръжка noun (handle)
- слагам дръжка verb (fit a handle)
Dutch
4 entries- greep noun (handle)
- handgreep noun (handle)
- handvat noun (handle)
- heft noun (handle)
Esperanto
1 entries- tenilo noun (handle)
Finnish
2 entries- kahva noun (handle)
- varsi noun (handle)
Galician
4 entries- cabo noun (handle)
- empuñadura noun (handle)
- mango noun (handle)
- puño noun (handle)
Georgian
1 entries- ვადა noun (handle)
German
2 entries- Griff noun (handle)
- Heft noun (handle)
Hebrew
2 entries- ידית noun (handle)
- קת noun (handle)
Italian
4 entries- ansa noun (handle)
- coccia noun (handle)
- elsa noun (handle)
- guardamano noun (handle)
Khmer
1 entries- ដង noun (handle)
Korean
2 entries- 손잡이 noun (handle)
- 자루 noun (handle)
Latin
1 entries- manubrium noun (handle)
Mongolian
1 entries- бариул noun (handle)
Portuguese
1 entries- cabo noun (handle)
Russian
3 entries- ру́чка noun (handle)
- рукоя́тка noun (handle)
- черено́к noun (handle)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- lurgann noun (handle)
Spanish
2 entries- asidero noun (handle)
- empuñadura noun (handle)
Swedish
3 entries- handtag noun (handle)
- skaft noun (handle)
- skafta verb (fit a handle)
Tagalog
2 entries- landa noun (handle)
- puluhan noun (handle)
Tamil
3 entries- காம்பு noun (handle)
- கைப்பிடி noun (handle)
- பிடி noun (handle)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
See this brandiſh'd Dagger: / […] / I'll bury to the haft, in her fair breaſt, / This Inſtrument of my Revenge.
Source: wiktionary
Instead, they made finely crafted bone points to haft onto their spears, reserving the use of flint mostly for blades and scrapers.
Source: wiktionary
[…] I hae heard him say, that the root of the matter was mair deeply hafted in that wild muirland parish than in the Canogate of Edinburgh.
Source: wiktionary
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