belly-helve

[bel-ee-helv]

bel·ly-helve

[bel-ee-helv]
noun British Metalworking.
a triphammer in which the cams act at a point along the helve, partway between the fulcrum and the head.

Origin:
1880–85
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Belly-helve is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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