helve
verbEtymology 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.
1
To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.
helve
noun/hɛlv/
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.
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 […]1917, Robert Frost, "The Ax-helve":
- Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 847:
2
A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.