Helves

Word HELVES
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Definitions and meanings of "Helves"

What do we mean by helves?

The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.

A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

An afficcionado of the Helvetica font and the neoliberal technocrat world order that it represents. Helvs are offshoots of Hipsters and generally work in digital media. They will never, regardless of context, refuse a game of Cards Against Humanity, which fetishizes their conscious experience. Urban Dictionary

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The word "helves" in example sentences

Beside it were several sledge-hammers, battered, and some with broken helves. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (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 ❋ Unknown (1961)

The weeders should be armed with the best steel hoes, with factory-made helves of ash, light and slightly flexible. ❋ B. W. Jones (N/A)

Firmly they grasped the axe-helves and swung the shining blades. ❋ Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ 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. ❋ Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 (1922)

"Two of the officers, sir -- playing what I believe they called bicycle polo with a brick and two pick-helves -- had -- er -- a slight mishap." ❋ Unknown (1912)

Axe-helves are still made by hand in the neighborhood. ❋ Unknown (1902)

Also I broke five several axe-helves in the course of the winter. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)

So he made two extra helves and had a dozen cornel-wood pegs ready to drive out the bit of broken handle next time I broke it; as I did, according to his laughing forecast. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)

When two suitable helves had been selected with great care and the ends of the hafts notched to prevent the hand from slipping, the axe-heads were fixed on them as firmly as possible, and the weapons immersed in a bucket of water for half an hour. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

After Umslopogaas had put an extra edge on these two axe-heads, we fixed them to three feet six helves, of which Mr ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

In the lane they wrangled over the spoils they gathered there from the fallen Danes, and fought fiercely with the long helves of their weapons without hurting one another at all by reason of their shock heads. ❋ Unknown (1884)

They could make more money with cotton than with corn, or beef, or pork, or leather, or hats, or wooden-ware; and Northern ships went South to take their forest timbers, and brought them to Connecticut to be made into wooden-ware and ax-helves and rake-handles, and carried them right back to sell to the men whose axes had cut down the trees. ❋ Fuller, O E (1884)

[The Google] page for this bar suggested that it had [anarcho-punk] [vibes], but now that we're here, it's clearly full of Helvs. ❋ ZMoneyy (2022)

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