helve

See also: Helve

English

Etymology

From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English helfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛlv/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlv

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.

Translations

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.

Finnish

(index he)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhe̞lʋe̞ˣ]
  • Hyphenation: hel‧ve
  • Rhymes: -elʋe

Noun

helve

  1. (botany) A lodicule.

Declension

Inflection of helve (Kotus type 48/hame, p-v gradation)
nominative helve helpeet
genitive helpeen helpeiden
helpeitten
partitive helvettä helpeitä
illative helpeeseen helpeisiin
helpeihin
singular plural
nominative helve helpeet
accusative nom. helve helpeet
gen. helpeen
genitive helpeen helpeiden
helpeitten
partitive helvettä helpeitä
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

Latin

Adjective

helve

  1. vocative masculine singular of helvus

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English helfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛlv/, /hɛlf/, /hilv/

Noun

helve

  1. helve (grip of an implement)

Descendants

  • English: helve
  • Scots: helf

References

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