英和和英

発音

• IPA: /hɛlv/
• 韻: -ɛlv

名詞

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 […]

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 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.

動詞

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.

語源

From 古期英語 hielfe, from Proto-West Germanic *halbī.

発音

• IPA: /ˈhɛlv(ə)/, /ˈhilv(ə)/, /hɛlf/

名詞

helve

1. helve (grip of an implement)

派生した語

• English: helve
• Scots: helf

参照

• “helve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 March 2019.