peavy
Americannoun
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peavies
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The person addressed first looked extremely astonished; then shouldered his peavy and started for camp, leaving the diminished rear a prey to curiosity.
From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by Stewart Edward White
Of course he had nerve, and could do anything with a log and a peavy, and would fight at the drop of a hat—any "bully boy" would qualify there—but also he had judgment.
From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by Stewart Edward White
An opening was made in the piles, and the rivermen, with pike-pole and peavy, began cautiously to dig their way through the tangled timbers.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
Pete Lebree had money and land, Paul of Olamon had none, Only his peavy and driving pole, his birch canoe and his gun.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
Then he dropped his peavy and stepped aside.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
“We’ll just have to dig into her with the peavies, Dinny, and trust to luck.”
From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
First of all, the entire crew set itself, by means of its peavies, to rolling the lower logs into the current, where they were rapidly borne away.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
This was sensible, so both children pushed their peavies into some smaller ice floes and managed to move the ponderous raft into a position so the large ice-floe could be moved.
From Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
In some cases this merely meant pushing them afloat by means of the peavies.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
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
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