haft

noun

1. 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.”

2. (Northern-England, Scotland, alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of heft (“piece of pastureland which farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) have become accustomed to; flock or group of farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) which have become accustomed to a particular piece of pastureland”).

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

2. (transitive)To grip by the handle.
3. (Northern-England, Scotland, alt-of, alternative, ambitransitive)Alternative spelling of heft (“(transitive) to accustom (a flock or group of farm animals, chiefly cattle or sheep) to a piece of pastureland; to establish or settle (someone) in an occupation or place of residence; to establish or plant (something) firmly in a place; (intransitive, reflexive) of a thing: to establish or settle itself in a place”)

   “[…] 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.”