peavy
Americannoun
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peavies
plural
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A peavy hook it is my pride, An ax I well can handle; To fell a tree or punch a bull Get rattling Danny Randall.
From Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by Various
There he stood on some prominent point, leaning his chin contemplatively against the thick shaft of his peavy, watching the endless procession of the logs drifting by.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
As man shouted to man, each shouldered his peavy and came running ashore, eager question on his lips.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
This man was standing on an extreme point, leaning on his peavy, watching the timbers float past.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
It seemed he could use a peavy, or canthook, pretty well, having done something besides sailing in his day.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
Here and there on the flanks of the wooden monster crews of men picked away with peavies.
From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
We hitched three spans of them to a scoot that had wide, wooden shoes, and that was loaded high with bags of grain, harnesses, peavies, shovels, axes, and chains.
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
Their peavies clanked regularly, and the logs twirled out of their resting places and trundled into the stream.
From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
Men were catching up ropes, chains, peavies, and pike poles and hurrying off into the darkness.
From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
They used peavies to roll logs into a compact pile and bound the chain around them.
From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard
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