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Helve

//hɛlv// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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 […]"

  2. 2
    the handle of a weapon or tool wordnet
  3. 3
    A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
Verb
  1. 1
    To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English hielfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiją. Probably cognate to English half, although Etymonline claims relation from halter and helm.

Etymology 2

From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English hielfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiją. Probably cognate to English half, although Etymonline claims relation from halter and helm.

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