helve
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 5
Definition of helve
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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 […]”
“Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves.”
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noun
-
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 […]”
“Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves.”
- A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
verb
- (transitive)To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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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