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Helve   Listen
noun
Helve  n.  
1.
The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.
2.
(Iron Working)
(a)
The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer.
(b)
A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.





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"Helve" Quotes from Famous Books



... read that during the months of uncertainty which preceded the actual crash, Scott threw the helve after the hatchet by charging himself personally, first, with an advance, or, at least, bond for L5000, and then for another of double that amount,[29] to help two firms, Constable and Hurst & Robinson, whose combined indebtedness was over half a million. But the fact of his doing ...
— Sir Walter Scott - Famous Scots Series • George Saintsbury
... Frost in some of his later work permits himself | | such laxness as— | | | | Had beauties he had to point out to me at length | | To insure their not being wasted on me. | | The Axe-Helve. ...
— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum
... a wonderful blow, men said afterward—so fairly in line between the eyes that no scale could detect a waver, yet far enough back to go crashing down helve-deep through the brain till it touched somewhere the spinal cord, the one great nerve of life that carries the brain's messages to the limbs, and without which they are dead. And Ulf, still staring into the glowing coals that gleamed in the eyesockets of his enemy, felt, ...
— The Iron Star - And what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages • John Preston True


Words linked to "Helve" :   handgrip, reap hook, sword, sticker, awl, file, brand, haft, dagger, reaping hook, axe, ax


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