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

Raven, determinedly shedding his emotion, plunged fast down the hill and into the house where Charlotte was busy in a steam of fragrances from stove and cooking table and Jerry sat smoothing an axe helve.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

The axe that flies from the helve at the first stroke, may be sharp as a grindstone can make it, but it will never cut a tree down for all that.”

From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by Tucker, St. George

With the fall of the blow, and the shock of it running up the helve through arms and shoulders, they were completely awake.

From The Boss of Wind River by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)