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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A handle of a tool, such as an ax, chisel, or hammer.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The handle of an ax, adz, or hatchet.
  2. n. The shank of a forge-hammer or trip-hammer: also used for the whole hammer.
  3. To furnish with a helve or handle, as an ax.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
  2. v. transitive To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.
  2. n. The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer.
  3. n. A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
  4. v. To furnish with a helve, as an ax.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the handle of a weapon or tool

Etymologies

  1. From Old English helfe. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English hielfe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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