peavey
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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
A peavey is like a cant-hook except that it is pointed at the end.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
The other dropped his peavey, heaved him up in his arms and, thus burdened, made for shore.
From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
Below them a man clamped his peavey into a log at the base of the pile and swung back on it so that the tough stock bent like a whip.
From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
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
Joe had taken the wooden handles from his hoes, rakes, and peaveys.
From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard
Occasionally he lent a shoulder when the peaveys lacked of prying a stubborn log from its bed.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
There were chain-links to be forged and fitted to broken chains; sharp two-inch calks to be driven into the horses’ shoes, peaveys and cant-hooks to be repaired.
From The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen
Calmly, with matter-of-fact directness, as though they had not achieved the impossible; as though they, a handful, had not cheated nature and powerful enemies, they shouldered their peaveys and struck into the broad wagon road.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
