helve
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /hɛlv/
helve (plural helves)
- The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
- 1917, Robert Frost, The Ax-helve:
- It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me— / “Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain […]
- 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
- The eyelet in the rose pilleum of his glans welled a clear bead that silled under the corona, wound the veinclomb helve, and ran a snailtrack down the thrum and ridge of the underduct.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 847:
- Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves.
- 1917, Robert Frost, The Ax-helve:
- A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
helve (helves, present participle helving; past and past participle helved)
- (transitive) To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.
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