Helve is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 31 anagrams from letters in Helve (eehlv).
before 900; Middle English; Old English h(i)elfe
I fling but the helve after the hatchet that has sunk into the silent stream.
The feel of the blow was good as the keen blade sank to the helve.
So I used the helve of an entrenching-tool and the stalks of the willow undergrowth.
With the fall of the blow, and the shock of it running up the helve through arms and shoulders, they were completely awake.
The pick sunk to its helve in the earth, now softened by the spring rain.
The hang of an axe is the way the handle or helve is fitted to the head.
The handle broke short off at the point where the helve meets the steel.
Why, my dear abbe, how you throw the helve after the hatchet!
But their throwing the helve after the hatchet, and giving up the malt-duty because they had lost the other, was droll enough.
helve, helv, n. the handle of an axe or hatchet: the handle of a forehammer.
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