What's the difference between haft and pommel?

Haft


Definition:

  • (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.

Pommel


Definition:

  • (n.) A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form
  • (n.) The knob on the hilt of a sword.
  • (n.) The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.
  • (n.) The top (of the head).
  • (n.) A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
  • (v. t.) To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A seating system for physically handicapped children has been devised in which a series of standard components (neck supports, rolled seats, pommels) can be incorporated to make a seating system appropriate for the individual child.
  • (2) Sceptics may scoff, and results of an attempt to extract DNA and match it to descendants are not due until Christmas, but Thompson is adamant that the bones now resting in a safe in the archaeology and ancient history department of Leicester University are those of the last Plantagenet, Richard III , who rode out of Leicester on the morning of 22 August 1485 a king, and came back a naked corpse slung over the pommel of a horse.
  • (3) However, many recordings displayed localized initial loading spikes which occurred during 'hard' landings on the pommel.
  • (4) Whitlock had qualified for the pommel final by a matter of decimal points, having tied for the eighth and last spot, and squeezed through on a tie-break.
  • (5) In order to study the forces of wrist impact, a standard pommel horse was instrumented with a specially designed load cell to record the resultant force of the hand on the pommel during a series of basic skills performed by a group of seventeen elite male gymnasts.
  • (6) The all-round, in which Britain won a bronze, most closely resembles modern gymnastics, as it involved exercises on separate pieces of apparatus:the horizontal bars, the parallel bars, the pommel horse and the Roman rings.
  • (7) It suggests the story that his naked corpse was brought back slung over the pommel of a horse, mocked and abused all the way, was true.
  • (8) Britain’s 112-year wait for a men’s gold medallist at the world gymnastics championships was ended when Max Whitlock narrowly edged out his team-mate Louis Smith with a silky display on the pommel horse on Saturday.
  • (9) Pearson has the puck all alone - he fires, save Lundqvist and then Pearson gets destroyed, pommelled into the boards by Anton Stralman!
  • (10) And after two years, when it was clear the policy was failing, the prime minister and Nick Clegg would hold a press conference by a pommel horse to explain that, however bad things got, at least we were doing better than Greece.
  • (11) Smith, all ebullience, set things in motion with a faultless performance on his speciality, the pommel horse.
  • (12) The pommel draw was set up perfectly for Smith, who took to the apparatus last.
  • (13) Better yet, they are all too focused on their careers to embarrass themselves by mucking around with older women and – on the off-chance that it would get tangled up in a pommel horse and cost them points – none of them are ever likely to grow silly Harry Styles haircuts.
  • (14) As he performed his first handstand his legs seemed to stretch to the heavens and with ineffable style and grace he completed one of the most consummate pommel displays the Olympic stage has seen.
  • (15) Whitlock, meanwhile, travelled across the pommel with such ease it seemed he must walk around daily on his hands.
  • (16) John Orozco, a star of American qualifying, did so twice, on the pommel horse and also on the vaulting mat, and in those two sedentary moments went his team's chances.
  • (17) Smith, who, after his stunning pommel routine, acted as cheerleader for the team, said he had been "keeping his eye on everything and knew we were within a couple of tenths by the end".
  • (18) The pommel horse routine was consistently responsible for wrist pain among the males.
  • (19) They could not have happened to a man protected by armour, and are consistent with the accounts of his body being stripped on the battlefield, and brought back to Leicester naked, slung over the pommel of a horse.
  • (20) Louis Smith upgraded his bronze at Beijing to a silver at the North Greenwich Arena on Sunday in a thrilling climax to the men's pommel horse final while his team-mate Max Whitlock took bronze.