peavey
Americannoun
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peaveys
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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
Not an axe, peavey or cant-hook was touched; not a team was hitched up.
From The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen
Joe used his peavey to roll half a dozen of the seasoned oak and hickory logs over a long chain, bound the chain around them, and hitched the mules to it.
From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard
I want to wear spiked boots and ride a stick in white water and use a peavey.
From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
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
Up and down the bank he rushed, bellowing orders and hurling curses at the men who, gripping their peaveys, swarmed over the heaving jam like flies.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
Four of them, holding their peaveys across their bodies, jumped lightly from one floating log to another in the zigzag to shore.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
Sometimes under the urging of the peaveys, but a single stick would slide down; or again a double tier would cascade with the roar of a little Niagara.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
Joe had taken the wooden handles from his hoes, rakes, and peaveys.
From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard
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