peavey
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of peavey
1865–70, named after Joseph Peavey, its inventor
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But at his best, his images become hermetic, despite their apparent candor; a peavey or a hanging cornhusk seems to brim with undisclosed biography.
From Time Magazine Archive
He rolled them over with a peavey and pounded them with the flat face of a splitting maul, testing for the ringing tone that indicated soundness.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Below them a man clamped his peavey into a log at the base of the pile and swung back on it so that the tough stock bent like a whip.
From The Boss of Wind River by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)
Each had clung to his peavey, as is the habit of rivermen.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
“Over talkin’ to Hoss,” said a driver, as he went for a new peavey.
From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert
Woodsmen's logrolling is a relay event with two men handling the needle-sharp peaveys, wrestling a quarter-ton log over a soft. course.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were some old-fashioned pick-poles, straight, heavy levers without any "dog," and there were modern pick-poles and peaveys, for every river has its favorite equipment in these things.
From Homespun Tales by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
They carried in racks a great supply of pike-poles, peaveys, axes, rope and dynamite, for use in various emergencies.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
There were some old-fashioned pick-poles, straight, heavy levers without any “dog,” and there were modern pick-poles and peaveys, for every river has its favorite equipment in these things.
From Rose O' the River by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
Men with spiked boots ran here and there from one bobbing log to another, pushing with their peaveys, hurrying one log, retarding another, working like beavers to keep the whole mass straight.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
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