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"Tool handle"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (HELVE).
Definitions
the handle of a weapon or tool
Word origin
From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English hielfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiją. Probably cognate to English half, although Etymonline claims relation from halter and helm.
Used in a sentence
“It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me— / “Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain […]”
“Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Tool handle”5 letters
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