Helve

Definitions

1. The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
2. A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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