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

Then, as a man pries jack-straws, he clamped his peavey and tugged sharply.

From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

Joe used his peavey to roll half a dozen of the seasoned oak and hickory logs over a long chain, bound the chain around them, and hitched the mules to it.

From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard

He developed a fair amount of skill with a peavey, and he derived a fierce satisfaction from each log that he twisted from its resting place and rolled into free water.

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

Up and down the bank he rushed, bellowing orders and hurling curses at the men who, gripping their peaveys, swarmed over the heaving jam like flies.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

The crew redoubled its exertions, clamping its peaveys here and there, apparently at random, but in reality with the most definite of purposes.

From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

The handles of the peaveys were braced against the end staffs of the pung, and to keep them in position did not exceed the twins' strength.

From Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp by Alice B. Emerson

Joe had taken the wooden handles from his hoes, rakes, and peaveys.

From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard