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
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
Each had clung to his peavey, as is the habit of rivermen.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
Each bent his knees, inserting his shoulder under the projecting peavey stock, to straighten in a mighty effort.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
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
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 Stewart Edward White
They leaned on their peaveys or squatted on the rocks, watching the river nonchalantly.
From Lost Farm Camp by Harry Herbert Knibbs
Calmly, with matter-of-fact directness, as though they had not achieved the impossible; as though they, a handful, had not cheated nature and powerful enemies, they shouldered their peaveys and struck into the broad wagon road.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
Occasionally he lent a shoulder when the peaveys lacked of prying a stubborn log from its bed.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
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