单词 | helve |
释义 | helven. 1. a. A handle of a weapon or tool, as an axe, chisel, hammer, etc. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [noun] > appendages of weapon > handle helvec897 buttc1425 hilt1574 gripe1748 society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > handle handleeOE helvec897 haftc1000 steal1377 start1380 handa1400 helmc1430 handlinga1450 pull1551 grasp1561 hilt1574 cronge1577 hold1578 tab1607 manubrium1609 tree1611 handfast1638 stock1695 handing1703 gripe1748 stem1796 handhold1797 grip1867 c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxi. 166 gif..sio æcs ðonne awint of ðæm hielfe. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 142/21 Manubrium, hæft and helfe. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9948 Þatt bulaxess hellfe. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 4655 A mayl of Ire..þe hilues lengþe was viij fet. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 117 Halberdes with blak helves. 1574 R. Scot Perfite Platf. of Hoppe Garden (1578) 27 Made with a rounde hole to receive a helue like to the helue of a Mattock. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 134 These iron tooles are to haue handles, and healues. a1628 F. Greville Alaham iii. ii, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 44 Vile Caine! that (like the Axe) do'st goe about, To cut thy selfe an helue to weare thee out. 1785 H. Marshall in W. Darlington Memorials J. Bartram & H. Marshall (1849) 544 By twisting a withe of Hickory round the stone, they make a helve, and so cut and bruised the bark round the trees. 1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 85 The shaft or helve is nine feet in length. b. Phrases. to throw the helve after the hatchet: after losing or risking so much, to risk all that is left; to go the whole length regardless of loss or damage. Also, by confusion, to throw the hatchet after the helve. to put the axe in the helve: see axe n.1 Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [verb (intransitive)] > run a risk or take one's chance to take one's chancec1325 to take penancec1400 to throw at allc1400 to buy a pig (in Scotl. a cat) in a poke1546 to throw the helve after the hatchet1546 to set (up) one's rest1579 to give the adventure1607 to make a shaft or a bolt of ita1616 to run a fortune1627 to run for luck1799 to go the vole1816 chance1863 to chance one's arm1889 to take a chance or chances1902 gamble1919 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > risk oneself > risk everything to throw at allc1400 to send the axe after the helvea1450 to throw the helve after the hatchet1546 to go the vole1816 to go for broke1935 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Liiv Here I sende thaxe after the helue awaie. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1266/2 Rather throw the helue after the hatchet, and leaue your ruines to be repared by your prince. a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters (1636) 59 Wel come on, hatchet after helve, Ile even loose this too. 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (1711) 222 I abandon myself through despair..and as the saying is, throw the Helve after the Hatchet. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. xiii. 322 Monsieur Martigny will be too much heart-broken to make further fight, but will e'en throw helve after hatchet. 2. (Also helve-hammer.) A tilt-hammer, the helve of which oscillates on bearings, so that it is raised by a cam carried by a revolving shaft, and falls by its own weight. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > forge-hammer tilt-hammer1773 trip-hammer1781 forge-hammer1815 skelper1831 tilt1831 oliver1846 set-hammer1855 helve-hammer1858 striker1869 belly-helve1881 society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > hammer > mechanical and power hammers > types of tilt-hammer1773 trip-hammer1781 tilt1831 Nasmyth1845 oliver1846 helve-hammer1858 striker1869 belly-helve1881 chipping hammer1988 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Helve-hammer. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 410 Before the introduction of Nasmyth's patent, the only assistance which steam had given to human labour in forging was the helve or tilt-hammer..It is..a lever of the first order. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 145 Helve, a lift-hammer for forging blooms. 1894 Harper's Mag. Jan. 422 The helve-hammer and the trip~hammer are essentially the same—each consists of a heavy head attached to a beam mounted on gudgeons, which is lifted at..intervals by a cam carried by a revolving shaft. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). helvev. Now rare. transitive. To furnish or fit with a helve. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > produce or develop arms [verb (transitive)] > fit with handle, shaft, or hilt helvec1440 shaft1611 hilt1813 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making tools, equipment, or fastenings > make tools, equipment, or fastenings [verb (transitive)] > furnish tool with handle haftc1430 helvec1440 stave1542 steal1543 handle1600 shaft1611 stouk1686 tree1864 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 235/1 Helvyn, or heftyn, manubrio. 1542 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) For helving the mattok jd. 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 66 The 2 hatchets to be new helu'd. 1861 J. R. Lowell Pickens-and-Stealin's Rebell. in Prose Wks. (1890) V. 78 To edge it with plan and helve it with direction. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c897v.c1440 |
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