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- Helve - n. - The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.
- Helve - n. - The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer.
- Helve - n. - A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
- Helve - v. t. - To furnish with a helve, as an ax.
- Helved - imp. & p. p. - of Helve
- Helvetian - a. - Same as Helvetic.
- Helvetian - n. - A Swiss; a Switzer.
- Helvetic - a. - Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.
- 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.
- Shaft - n. - The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc.
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- Deuteronomy 5 19:5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
בּוֹא יַעַר רֵעַ חָטַב עֵץ יָד נָדַח גַּרְזֶן כָּרַת עֵץ בַּרְזֶל נָשַׁל עֵץ מָצָא רֵעַ מוּת נוּס אֶחָד עִיר חָיַי