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
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 H. Bedford-Jones
She disposed the ax to conceal it entirely beneath her long apron, her hand under the garment grasping the helve.
From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
They cut and shaved axe-handles and helved them.
From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Arthur Henry Howard Heming
The father and Da'Be took their stand face to face on either side of a tree, and their axes, helved with birch, began to swing in rhythm.
From Maria Chapdelaine by W. H. Blake
Carpenter and others at work on shallop, getting out stock for a new shallop, helving tools, making articles needed, etc.
From The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete by Azel Ames
