peavey
noun
a cant hook with a sharply pointed end, used in handling logs.
peaveys
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pluralof peavey.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
Joe had taken the wooden handles from his hoes, rakes, and peaveys.
From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard
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
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
Others, waist deep in the water, clamped the jaws of their peaveys into the stubborn timbers, and, shoulder bent, slid them slowly but surely into the swifter waters.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
