(n.) 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.
(n.) A dwelling.
(v. t.) To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger.
Example Sentences:
(1) The axe used to kill him struck with such force it was left embedded to the haft in the dead man's face, its handle covered with sticking plaster to hide traces of fingerprints.
(2) There is evidence for hafting of these tools at a date which is earlier than known elsewhere in the world.
(3) According to the unphysiologic high bending stress of the shaft in level of the lower half of the haft of the prosthesis, a hypertrophy of cortex and vault occurs.
(4) This is the earliest evidence of hafted axes [axes with a handle] in the world.
(5) Petraglia added that there were several other implications to the discovery that Homo heidelbergensis had used hafting to make spears.
(6) The technique needed to make stone-tipped spears, called hafting, would also have required humans to think and plan ahead: hafting is a multi-step manufacturing process that requires many different materials and skill to put them together in the right way.
(7) "It's telling us they're able to collect the appropriate raw materials, they're able to manufacture the right type of stone weapons, they're able to collect wooden shafts, they're able to haft the stone tools to the wooden shaft as a composite technology," said Michael Petraglia, a professor of human evolution and prehistory at the University of Oxford who was not involved in the research.
(8) It was no match for the high-spirited fun-loving youth of northern Tehran who sang "Ahmedi-bye-bye, Ahmedi-bye-bye" or "ye hafte-do hafte, Mahmud hamum na-rafte" (One week, two weeks, Mahmoud hasn't taken a shower).
(9) Hafte-Sobh newspaper took aim at “a class of young people who stubbornly and with the backup of their wealth, are having fun and live their own special way of life, and the Iranian system cannot touch them.” Taadol newspaper poured scorn on “a class of nouveau riche who cropped up like mushrooms” during the 2005-2013 presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Hart
Definition:
(n.) A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(2) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.
(3) April 17, 2013 The third floor isn't doing so well either: Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) Capitol police email Senate offices: Police "are responding to a suspicious envelope on the third floor of the Hart Senate Office Building."
(4) The targets of the manager included Samir Nasri, Joe Hart and Micah Richards.
(5) Miranda Hart as Chummy Brown in Call the Midwife By now, we are huddled around a heater.
(6) The deal will be effective from 28 February, meaning Defoe has the opportunity to add to his 142 goals for the White Hart Lane club.
(7) To dye for … England's Joe Hart applauds fans after the Costa Rica game; their response to his hair is not pictured.
(11) Konoplyanka had already thudded a free-kick against the upright, with Joe Hart and the entire City defence anticipating a cross, before the Ukraine international opened the scoring on the half-hour, capping off a 10-minute spell of concerted pressure.
(12) Once more the opportunity arose from a lack of cohesion down City’s left, Victor Wanyama breaking up play in midfield and feeding Tadic, who advanced and slipped a precise ball between Kolarov and Eliaquim Mangala to Mané, who emphatically finished past Hart.
(13) It’s an exciting process.” The BBC is in talks with the production company Hart co-founded with David Walliams and comedy producer Jo Sargent , King Bert, about the show’s return.
(14) April 17, 2013 5.43pm BST A Capitol police spokesperson on the situations in Russell and Hart senate office buildings: "All I can tell you right now is we're investigating suspicious envelopes in both."
(15) However, it is early days for Pochettino’s side and Tottenham’s credentials will be fully tested by Liverpool, whose 5-0 victory at White Hart Lane last season led to André Villas-Boas losing his job.
(16) Monkey chants rang out at White Hart Lane this month as visiting Lazio "Ultras" from Italy abused three Spurs players.
(17) So much so that the Olympic discus champion Robert Harting even withdrew from consideration.
(18) In her first straight dramatic role, albeit one with comedy elements, Hart has proved a hit: Chummy's awkward flirting with Constable Noakes, wobbly cycling and surprise medical ability delighting the show's more than 10 million viewers.
(19) This means if you wanted to use your small local family solicitor's practice, which doesn't appear on your mortgage lender's panel of approved solicitors, you may end up paying twice if they continue to represent you, as the lender will also instruct their own solicitor to act for them in relation to the mortgage," says Gary Score, partner at law firm Hart Brown.