Definition of helve

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Helve (n.) The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer..

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Helve :: Helve (v. t.) To furnish with a helve, as an ax..
Shelve :: Shelve (v. t.) To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve an officer; to shelve a claim..
Shelve :: Shelve (v. i.) To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore..
Hurt :: Hurt (n.) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions..
Hanging :: Hanging (a.) Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves..
Sideboard :: Sideboard (n.) A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.
Unshelve :: Unshelve (v. t.) To remove from, or as from, a shelf..
Shelve :: Shelve (v. t.) To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library..
Bullhead :: Bullhead (n.) The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead.
Helvetian :: Helvetian (a.) Same as Helvetic.
Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question..
Whatnot :: Whatnot (n.) A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an etagere..
Shelving :: Shelving (n.) The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet..
Beetlehead :: Beetlehead (n.) The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover..
Shelving :: Shelving (n.) Material for shelves; shelves, collectively..
Etagere :: Etagere (n.) A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use..
Cupboard :: Cupboard (n.) A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet..
Dumb-waiter :: Dumb-waiter (n.) A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves..
Axe :: Axe (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle..
Niere :: niere (n.) A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers.
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