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

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.

Then, taking from the corner the axe helve, Shea passed outside the shack.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

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.