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Helve  v. t.  (past & past part. helved; pres. part. helving)  To furnish with a helve, as an ax.





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"Helve" Quotes from Famous Books



... find. His job is neat and workmanlike, whether it is a bark receptacle—water-tight or not—a pair of snow-shoes, the repairing of a badly-smashed canoe, the construction of a shelter, or the fashioning of a paddle. About noon one day Tawabinisay broke his axe-helve square off. This to us would have been a serious affair. Probably we should, left to ourselves, have stuck in some sort of a rough straight sapling handle which would have answered well enough until we could have bought ...
— The Forest • Stewart Edward White


Words linked to "Helve" :   dagger, sword, reaping hook, sickle, grip, blade, handle, sticker, axe, reap hook, haft, hold, file, awl, handgrip, ax, knife, steel


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