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单词 helve
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helven.

Brit. /hɛlv/, U.S. /hɛlv/
Forms: Old English hielf, helfe, Middle English Orm. hellfe, Middle English hilve, 1500s healve, Middle English– helve.
Etymology: Old English hięlfe (hylfe , helfe ), masculine or neuter < *halƀjo-, corresponding in stem to Middle Dutch helf , neuter, helve , neuter and feminine, Middle Low German helf , helve , neuter, Old High German halb , halp , masculine, Middle High German halp , plural helbe < Old Germanic type *halƀi- , neuter, from a root which appears also in halter n.1
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.
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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.
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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.

Etymology: < helve n.
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).
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