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

The hand on the axe helve shook perceptibly.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

Shea packed his few belongings, regretfully left the historic axe helve for Mrs. Crump, then motioned his prisoner to help him lift Dorales.

From The Mesa Trail 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.