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

She disposed the ax to conceal it entirely beneath her long apron, her hand under the garment grasping the helve.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)

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.

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