peavies
- plural of peavy.
Example Sentences
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This they attacked with their peavies, rolling the top logs off into the current below.
From The Riverman by White, Stewart Edward
These things fascinated him and held him with a longing for them, like revolvers and razors and carpenter's chisels and peavies and all other business-like tools of a trade.
From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Brehm, Worth
A dozen men ran out over the logs as though skylarking, inserted their peavies in a threatened lock, and pried it loose.
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
Some few the rivermen were forced to carry bodily, ten men to a side, the peavies clamped in as handles.
From The Riverman by White, Stewart Edward
By three, just as the dawn was beginning to differentiate the east from the west, the regular clank, clank, clink of the peavies proclaimed that due advantage of the high water was being seized.
From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by White, Stewart Edward
