28. hafting

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The addition of wooden handles, known as hafting, gave the user a firmer grip and much greater leverage than previously possible with a naked blade. [1] The dictionary definition being to furnish with a haft or handle; set in a haft.[2]

[1] Manual page 57 [2]http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hafted

-William Perdue