Definition of helve

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Helve (n.) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

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Helve :: Helve (n.) The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze..
Helve :: Helve (v. t.) To furnish with a helve, as an ax..
Unshelve :: Unshelve (v. t.) To remove from, or as from, a shelf..
Helve :: Helve (n.) The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer..
Buffet :: Buffet (n.) A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard..
Shelving :: Shelving (n.) Material for shelves; shelves, collectively..
Landamman :: Landamman (n.) The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.
Helm :: Helm (n.) A helve.
Shelving :: Shelving (n.) The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet..
Helved :: Helved (imp. & p. p.) of Helv.
Hurt :: Hurt (n.) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions..
Helvetian :: Helvetian (a.) Same as Helvetic.
Shelves :: Shelves (pl. ) of Shel.
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..
Shelve :: Shelve (v. i.) To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore..
Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc..
Sideboard :: Sideboard (n.) A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.
Apothesis :: Apothesis (n.) A place on the south side of the chancel in the primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc..
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..
Turban-top :: Turban-top (n.) A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus (Helvella, / Gyromitra, esculenta.)..
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