helve

See also Helve

English

Etymology

From Old English helfe.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɛlv/

Noun

helve (plural helves)

1. 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.

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

Verb

helve (third-person singular simple present helves, present participle helving, simple past and past participle helved)

1. (transitive) To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.

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Finnish

(index he)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈhe̞lʋe̞ˣ], X-SAMPA: ["helv\e(?)]
• Hyphenation: hel‧ve
• Rhymes: -elʋe

Noun

helve

1. (botany) A lodicule.

Declension

Declension of helve (type hame) singular plural nominative helve helpeet genitive helpeen helpeiden helpeitten partitive helvettä helpeitä accusative helve helpeen helpeet inessive helpeessä helpeissä elative helpeestä helpeistä illative helpeeseen helpeisiin helpeihin adessive helpeellä helpeillä ablative helpeeltä helpeiltä allative helpeelle helpeille essive helpeenä helpeinä translative helpeeksi helpeiksi instructive – helpein abessive helpeettä helpeittä comitative – helpeineen