Hæftan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hæftan

Add: to give in charge to, handover to :-- Ne ǽnig man óðerne tó nearwe ne hæfte, ne on unriht ne geþeówige let not any man imprison other too straitly, nor wrongfully enslave, Wlfst. 70, 6. Fúlum wítehúsa adelseáþe tó hæftenne putido ergastulorum latibulo mancipande, An. Ox. 4755. hæftan