peavey
Americannoun
plural
peaveysnoun
Etymology
Origin of peavey
1865–70, named after Joseph Peavey, its inventor
Example Sentences
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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
She had picked up a peavey one of the timbermen had left on this bank and was using is as a staff as she watched the "freshet" start.
From Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies by Emerson, Alice B.
It was cruel hard work; a man who has lifted his utmost strength into a peavey knows that.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
The rivermen, without hesitation, as calmly as though catastrophe had not thrown the weight of its moral terror against their stoicism, sprang, peavey in hand, to the insistent work.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
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