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
These journals are the centre of motion of the hammer helve e.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
What are known as power hammers are those driven by belt and pulley; while those known as trip hammers have their helve lifted through the medium of revolving lugs or cams.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The hammer lever or helve is adjustable for height by means of the screw g and hand-wheel h, which raise or lower the bearings in which the helve journals are carried.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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
