Helve vs Hilt - What's the difference?
helve | hilt |
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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The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
The base of the penis
{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2
, he draws it again, and just wetting it with spittle, re-enters, and with ease sheath'd it now up to the hilt }}
As a proper noun helve
is .As a noun hilt is
the handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.As a verb hilt is
to provide with a hilt.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 .