Definitions for "HELPMATE"
Keywords:  mate, chess, helper, wife, wooin
A wife, or bitter half. "Now, why is yer wife called a helpmate, Pat?" Says the priest. "Since the time 'o yer wooin' She's niver [sic] assisted in what ye were at -- For it's naught ye are ever doin'." "That's true of yer Riverence [sic]," Patrick replies, And no sign of contrition envices; "But, bedad, it's a fact which the word implies, For she helps to mate the expinses [sic]!" Marley Wottel
A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.
A special Chess problem invented by Max Lange where both sides cooperate in mating the black King.
Keywords:  partner
a helpful partner