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

He rose and saw his axe helve lying where he had lain that night.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

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.

She disposed the ax to conceal it entirely beneath her long apron, her hand under the garment grasping the helve.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)