Elve vs Helve - What's the difference?
elve | helve |
(astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity
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The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
* 1917 , (Robert Frost), The Ax-helve :
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 847:
A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.
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As nouns the difference between elve and helve
is that elve is an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity while helve is the handle or haft of a tool or weapon.As a verb helve is
to furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.elve
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sir Olof he rode out at early day, / And so came he unto an Elve -dance gay.
See also
* blue starter * bluejet * gigantic jet * gnome * pixie * red sprite * sprelve * sprite halo * sprite * transient luminous events * troll * upward lightning ----helve
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me— / “Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain [...].
- The eyelet in the rose pilleum of his glans welled a clear bead that silled under the corona, wound the veinclomb helve , and ran a snailtrack down the thrum and ridge of the underduct.
- Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves .
