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

Thady Shea reëntered the store, in blissful ignorance that he was done for, and demanded his axe helve.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

Swifter than his hand was the axe helve.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

Finding that he was only a couple of blocks from the main street of the town, Shea walked toward it, the axe helve still in his hand.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.