peaveys
- plural of peavey.
Example Sentences
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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
The crew redoubled its exertions, clamping its peaveys here and there, apparently at random, but in reality with the most definite of purposes.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
Fallon and Stromberg leaped forward and simultaneously their peaveys bit into the smaller of the two key-logs.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
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 White, Stewart Edward
A dozen axes and peaveys had been pulled out of a barrel and thrown on the floor, to see if perchance they had hidden anything good to eat.
From A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories by Long, William J. (William Joseph)
