helve
/hɛlv/
noun 2verb 1
Definitions
noun
1
The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me— / “Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain […]
Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves.
2
A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
verb
1
To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.
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