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Shelved vs Helved - What's the difference?

shelved | helved |

As verbs the difference between shelved and helved

is that shelved is past tense of shelve while helved is past tense of helve.

As an adjective shelved

is of or pertaining to a shelving; having shelves.

shelved

English

Verb

(head)
  • (shelve)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Of or pertaining to a shelving; having shelves.
  • Postponed.

    • Synonyms

    * (postponed) on ice

    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.
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