1550 in E. W. Harcourt (1876) I. 21 Every Browser to have to his lodging every night one Billet of wood the length of his ax-helve.
1730 J. Hempstead 11 Mar. (1998) 218 I made an ax helve for Gersh.
1847 W. T. Porter 45 He picked up an ole axe helve an gin me a wipe aside the hed that laid me cole fur a while.
1995 53 16 I had noticed their suitcases on the racks, each with a strap around it and each with an axe-helve under the strap.