HELVE meaning: Handle for an axe, hammer

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helve: Merriam-Webster
helve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
helve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
helve: Collins English Dictionary
helve: Vocabulary.com
helve: Wordnik
helve: Wiktionary
helve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
helve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
helve: Infoplease Dictionary
Helve, helve: Dictionary.com
helve: Online Etymology Dictionary
Helve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
helve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
helve: Rhymezone
Helve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
Helve: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
helve: FreeDictionary.org
helve: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
helve: Mnemonic Dictionary
helve: TheFreeDictionary.com
helve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

HELVE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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Definitions from Wiktionary (helve)

▸ noun:  The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
▸ noun:  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.

Similar:

haft, helm, hilt, axhandle, grab handle, heel, axehandle, axe head, lovehandle, haulm, more...

Opposite:

blade, head, edge, point

Phrases:

helve hammer, more...

Adjectives:

good, axe, new, wooden, long, own, short, carved, frontal, dear, straight

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