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Examples of helve
helve
This was lifted by cams striking the helve between the pivot and the head.
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A helve hammer has the head mounted at the end of a recumbent helve.
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The nose helve hammer seems to have been unusual until the late 18th or early 19th century.
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They fall into two types, helve hammers and drop hammers.
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The axe has many forms and specialized uses but generally consists of an axe head with a handle, or helve.
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The belly helve hammer was the kind normally found in a finery forge, used for making pig iron into forgeable bar iron.
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This was probably the case because the strain on a wooden helve would have been too great if the head were heavier.
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The choice of which of the kinds, listed below, should be used in a particular context may depend on the strain that its operation imposed on the helve.
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The tilt hammer or tail helve hammer has a pivot at the centre of the helve on which it is mounted, and is lifted by pushing the opposite end to the head downwards.
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- Haft: the handle of a weapon or tool
- (Helved) A term to express the handle of an axe, adze, hammer, etc., when of a different tincture. See Haft.
