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

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

It was an ax, some five feet from haft to helve; double-bladed, each blade eight inches long, curved back slightly, and two inches thick by twice as much wide.

From Nuala O'Malley by Bedford-Jones, H.

Raven, determinedly shedding his emotion, plunged fast down the hill and into the house where Charlotte was busy in a steam of fragrances from stove and cooking table and Jerry sat smoothing an axe helve.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice