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

Then, taking from the corner the axe helve, Shea passed outside the shack.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

These journals are the centre of motion of the hammer helve e.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

Finding that he was only a couple of blocks from the main street of the town, Shea walked toward it, the axe helve still in his hand.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.