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- noun Plural form of
haft . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
haft .
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Examples
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Besides these (which are all good and substantiall commodities) they haue diuers other of smaller accompt, that are naturall and proper to that countrey: as the fish tooth (which they call Ribazuba) which is vsed both among themselues, and the Persians and Bougharians that fetch it from thence for beads, kniues, and sword hafts of Noblemen and gentlemen, and for diuers other vses.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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(which are all good and substantiall commodities) they haue diuers other of smaller accompt, that are naturall and proper to that countrey: as the fish tooth (which they call Ribazuba) which is vsed both among themselues, and the Persians and Bougharians that fetch it from thence for beads, kniues, and sword hafts of Noblemen and gentlemen, and for diuers other vses.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ai hafts tu maiks mai noys awn ICHC tudae becuz IRL is wirking in teh libraree!
Hard work pays off - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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And herself, swifter than the flash of an eye or the hafts of the sun, when it rises upwards from a far-distant land, hastened swiftly through the sea, until she reached the Aeaean beach of the
The Argonautica 2008
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She flared steel, Pushing powerfully against the rings of metal wrapped loosely around the arrowheads 'broken hafts.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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His Push ripped the unattached rings free from the hafts, shooting the bits of metal backward.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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A slight movement of the ice round the ship caused the rudder to become dangerously jammed on the 21st, and we had to cut away the ice with ice – chisels, heavy pieces of iron with 6 – ft. wooden hafts.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
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"Branches too light for spear-hafts, and creepers no thicker than cords," he remarked, indicating the foliage about the crag.
The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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"Branches too light for spear-hafts, and creepers no thicker than cords," he remarked, indicating the foliage about the crag.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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At the time when Europeans first arrived, the Tasmanians had no metalworking skills, no stone tools with ground edges or wooden hafts, no wooden bowls, as the mainlanders did.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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