helve

Example Sentences

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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

He set his dinner pail down beside him, and his hand moved a few inches along the helve of his axe.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

The speaker recounted, with many added elaborations and details, the story of Thady Shea and his 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.