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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
helve .
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Examples
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HOMER: ‘Having our hilted swords and long-helved spears.’
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The chief stood huge near the cabin, a long-helved ax on his shoulder.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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HOMER: 'Having our hilted swords and long-helved spears.'
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Winchester nestled in the crook of his left arm; two huge bear-traps, the jaws wickedly fanged, were swung from a rope over his right shoulder; a short-helved ax was thrust within his belt.
Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily
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The father and Da'Bé took their stand face to face on either side of a tree, and their axes, helved with birch, began to swing in rhythm.
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The facts of the case were these: Will was a slave who became angry because another slave was allowed to use a hoe which Will used and had helved in his own time.
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In the afternoon I sent the canoe to the place from whence she had been brought, and in her two axes, two hatchets (one of them helved), six knives, six looking-glasses, a large bunch of beads, and four glass bottles.
Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier John Pinkerton 1792
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a tree, and their axes, helved with birch, began to swing in rhythm.
Maria Chapdelaine Louis H��mon 1896
hernesheir commented on the word helved
In heraldry, bearing a handle of a different tincture.
October 4, 2011