helve
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
- helver noun
- unhelved adjective
Etymology
Origin of helve
before 900; Middle English; Old English h ( i ) elfe
Example Sentences
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Through centuries of trial & error many of man's simplest tools ?the ax helve, the plowshare, the ox yoke ?had achieved a utilitarian perfection of design.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Can a man not come back for an axe helve without finding his house a shambles?”
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
It was an ax, some five feet from haft to helve; double-bladed, each blade eight inches long, curved back slightly, and two inches thick by twice as much wide.
From Nuala O'Malley by Bedford-Jones, H.
The superiority of this hoe—usually called the "goose-neck hoe" in Virginia—over the old style of weeding hoe, with the heavy and stiff home-made helve, cannot be estimated, except by those who have tried both.
From The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses by Jones, B. W.
It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
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