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Helved vs Helves - What's the difference?

helved | helves |

As a verb helved

is (helve).

As a noun helves is

.

helved

English

Verb

(head)
  • (helve)

    • helve

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
  • * 1917 , (Robert Frost), The Ax-helve :
    • It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me— / “Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain [...].
  • * 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
    • 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.
  • * 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 847:
    • Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves .
  • A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

    • Verb

  • To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.
    • ----

    helves

    English

    Noun

    (head)

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