(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.
Helve
Definition:
(n.) The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.
(n.) The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer.
(n.) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
(v. t.) To furnish with a helve, as an ax.
Example Sentences:
(1) When introduced into Nicotiana tabacum by leaf disk transformation via Agrobacterium tumefaciens, high levels of stable coat protein were detected which were identical in molecular weight to that of HelVS coat protein and constituted approximately 0.1-0.5% of the total extracted protein.
(2) After examinaning the vascular supply of the parietal peritoneum helved peritoneal flaps were fixed in wound dehiscent colon anastomoses.
(3) This region of HelVS, equivalent to the 1.5 kb subgenomic RNA, also produced high levels of protein when transcribed and translated in vitro.
(4) Diffuse mesangial sclerosis (DMS) has been described as a distinct morphological pattern observed in patients presenting with a congenital or infantile nephrotic syndrome (NS) leading to end stage renal failure (ESRF) before the age of 3 years (Habib & Bois: Helv.
(5) The coat protein open reading frame (ORF) sequence of Helenium virus S (HelVS) was cloned and expressed in E. coli, rabbit reticulocyte and transgenic tobacco.
(6) Some bivalent ACTH antagonists displayed much greater antagonist potency than their monovalent analogs, which supports the findings of Stolz and Fauchere (Helv Chim Acta 71: 1421-1428, 1988).