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- verb Present participle of
helve .
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Examples
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From time to time a village, gray-walled, brown-roofed, broke the low helving shore of the lake, where the poplars rose and the vineyards spread with a monotony that somehow pleased; and at Nyon a twelfth-century castle, as noble as Chillon, offered the delight of its changing lines as the boat approached and passed.
A Little Swiss Sojourn William Dean Howells 1878
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Carpenter and others at work on shallop, getting out stock for a new shallop, helving tools, making articles needed, etc. TUESDAY, Nov. 21/Dec. 1
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Azel Ames 1876
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Tlie greater part of the fleet helving gone to sea yesterday evening, the whole being under weigh, and the corps in the embarkation necessarily much mixed on board, it is impossible at present to lay befoie you a return of our casualties.
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The river Charadrus fupplies them with all the water they have; and this river, after run - ning through {helving places, pours itfelf into the Cephi& fus.
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