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.
A dwelling. [Scot.] Jamieson.
To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger.
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