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

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.

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

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.