peavy
noun
peavies
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pluralof peavy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Quite coolly the rivermen made their way ashore, their peavies held like balancing poles across their bodies.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
We’ve tasted of This and we know what it lacks— We lonesome old baches— Of peavies and patches, Bills, Tommies, and Jacks of the Axe.”
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
These men, quite simply, walked to the edges of the rollway, rolled a log apiece into the water, stepped aboard, leaned against their peavies, and were swept away by the swift current.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
These the men sometimes, waist deep in the icy water, owing to the extreme inequality of the bottom, were rolling over and over with their peavies until once more they floated.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
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 Worth Brehm
