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
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“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
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Added to the joke was the story of Thady Shea and the axe helve, which travelled fast and far.
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.
Don’t forget that there axe helve, whatever ye do!
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.