helve

Example Sentences

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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

Fire wood was scattered about; here was an axe with a broken helve, there a rust-eaten shovel, and the whole place spoke of poverty.

From The Last Straw by Titus, Harold

Ben Aimes, in blissful ignorance of what that axe helve was destined to mean to him and to others, filled the order.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

Oh, chevalier, one must not throw the helve after the hatchet!

From The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Dumas père, Alexandre