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
The hand on the axe helve shook perceptibly.
From Old Crow by Brown, Alice
Ben Aimes, in blissful ignorance of what that axe helve was destined to mean to him and to others, filled the order.
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
Swifter than his hand was the axe helve.
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
