helves

Having made this firm, and with room to grasp the handle of the largest one only — for the helves of the others were shorter — I smiled at Uncle Ben, and whirled the mighty implement round my head, just to try whether I could manage it.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Beside it were several sledge-hammers, battered, and some with broken helves.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

I THEN gathered for myself staves, and stud-shafts, and crossbeams, and helves for each of the tools that I could work with; and bow-timbers and bolt-timbers for every work that I could perform—as many as I could carry of the comeliest trees.

The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

For instance he sold the Antietam Iron Works gum, oak, and hickory suitable for making helves for the huge hammers used in its plant.

Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961

Negroe Peter called and paid for a stick of Timber for 2 forge Hammer helves $4.50 gave me a very suspicious looking note of the Lancaster

Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961

The weeders should be armed with the best steel hoes, with factory-made helves of ash, light and slightly flexible.

The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses B. W. Jones

Firmly they grasped the axe-helves and swung the shining blades.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

The same invention has been applied to other branches of manufacture, such as shoe-lasts, axe-helves, etc.; and Mr. Blanchard has successfully used it in multiplying copies of marble statuary with a degree of accuracy and beauty which is truly wonderful.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

Hairy ones had learned the use of fire, and of chipped crude stone implements -- mostly heavy triangular choppers to be used in the hand, without helves.

Genesis H. Beam Piper 1934

It fell to his lot to make the sleds, the stone-boats, the hay-rigging, the ax helves, the flails, to mend the cradles and rakes, to build the haystacks, and once, I remember, he rebuilt the churning machine.

My Boyhood Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1922