peavey

But at his best, his images become hermetic, despite their apparent candor; a peavey or a hanging cornhusk seems to brim with undisclosed biography.

From Time Magazine Archive

He rolled them over with a peavey and pounded them with the flat face of a splitting maul, testing for the ringing tone that indicated soundness.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

She had picked up a peavey one of the timbermen had left on this bank and was using is as a staff as she watched the "freshet" start.

From Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies by Emerson, Alice B.

The other dropped his peavey, heaved him up in his arms and, thus burdened, made for shore.

From The Boss of Wind River by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)

Tradition claimed that only once in a long woods life had Shearer been forced to "take water" before a breaking rollway: and then he saved his peavey.

From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward

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

Four of them, holding their peaveys across their bodies, jumped lightly from one floating log to another in the zigzag to shore.

From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward

They leaned on their peaveys or squatted on the rocks, watching the river nonchalantly.

From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert

Occasionally he lent a shoulder when the peaveys lacked of prying a stubborn log from its bed.

From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward

A dozen axes and peaveys had been pulled out of a barrel and thrown on the floor, to see if perchance they had hidden anything good to eat.

From A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories by Long, William J. (William Joseph)