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hafters

hafters is the plural of hafter.

Meaning of hafter

Noun

hafter (plural hafters)

  1. (archaic) A maker of handles for knives and other tools
    • I found it difficult to obtain a situation to my mind, so I engaged to work with a table-knife cutler, to learn the art and mystery of his trade as a hafter.1850, Bernard Bird, The Perambulations of Barney the Irishman

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Proper noun capitalized: Hafters

Hafters

  1. (plural) plural of Hafter

Questions about hafters

What is hafters the plural of?
Hafters is the plural of hafter.
What part of speech is hafters?
Hafters is a proper noun.

Words near hafters in the dictionary

  1. Haftaros
  2. haftarot
  3. haftaroth
  4. hafted
  5. hafter
  6. hafters
  7. hafting
  8. haftorah
  9. haftorahs
  10. haftorot
  11. haftoroth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hafters (page history and authors); Hafters (page history and authors); hafter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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