Definition of "helving" [helving]

• Present participle of helve. (verb)

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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."
• "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"
• "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."