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helve

/helv/US // hɛlv //UK // (hɛlv) //

舵手,舵主,舵机

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the handle of an ax, hatchet, hammer, or the like.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    helved, helv·ing.

    • : to furnish with a helve.

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Examples

  • She searched his face with steady eyes, her hand on the ax-helve, in earnest effort to read his heart.

  • She disposed the ax to conceal it entirely beneath her long apron, her hand under the garment grasping the helve.

  • With the fall of the blow, and the shock of it running up the helve through arms and shoulders, they were completely awake.

  • He had taken but a few of these when the axe flew from the helve, narrowly missing the Professor's head.

  • His hands were playing with a pickaxe helve, as if he longed to have me under it.