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Haft vs Haut - What's the difference?

haft | haut |

As nouns the difference between haft and haut

is that haft is custody, imprisonment while haut is skin, hide of a person, animal or (part of a) plant.

haft

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The handle of a tool or weapon.
  • * Dryden
    • This brandish'd dagger / I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast.
    Synonyms
    * hilt (sword handle ) * stale, stail, stele, steal (axe handle )

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fit a handle to a tool or weapon.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * heft

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Northern English dialect) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.

    • haut

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Haughty.
  • * Nations proud and haut . — Milton.
    • (Webster 1913) ----