• Slowly, Joshua placed both his hands on the haft of the spear, just above the point, and pushed upward.
• The multiple notches may also represent hafting adjustments, for example, as the result of tool breakage or attempts to balance hafts.

Synonyms

• The boys have found some information on the internet that has led them to believe it is a hafted core axe, between 5,000 and 6,000 years old, but they would like it confirmed by an expert.
• The traditional value of the blades was clearly recognized by their Aboriginal ‘collectors’, who sought to exploit it by hafting a resin handle in the traditional way.
• He hafted a series of replicated contracting-stemmed bifaces to notched wooden handles using adhesives of varying tensile strength; one was lashed only with deer sinew.