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
Don’t forget that there axe helve, whatever ye do!
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
It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
They cut and shaved axe-handles and helved them.
From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Heming, Arthur Henry Howard
The father and Da'Be took their stand face to face on either side of a tree, and their axes, helved with birch, began to swing in rhythm.
From Maria Chapdelaine by Blake, W. H.
Carpenter and others at work on shallop, getting out stock for a new shallop, helving tools, making articles needed, etc.
From The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete by Ames, Azel
