helve
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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
These journals are the centre of motion of the hammer helve e.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
"Why, my dear abbe, how you throw the helve after the hatchet!"
From The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Alexandre Dumas père
There was a nick in the helve that I had put there myself.
From Camps and Trails by Henry Abbott
The father and Da'Be took their stand face to face on either side of a tree, and their axes, helved with birch, began to swing in rhythm.
From Maria Chapdelaine by W. H. Blake
They cut and shaved axe-handles and helved them.
From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Arthur Henry Howard Heming
Carpenter and others at work on shallop, getting out stock for a new shallop, helving tools, making articles needed, etc.
From The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete by Azel Ames
