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
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 Kjelgaard, James Arthur
It was cruel hard work; a man who has lifted his utmost strength into a peavey knows that.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
Each had clung to his peavey, as is the habit of rivermen.
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
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
Others, waist deep in the water, clamped the jaws of their peaveys into the stubborn timbers, and, shoulder bent, slid them slowly but surely into the swifter waters.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
They carried in racks a great supply of pike-poles, peaveys, axes, rope and dynamite, for use in various emergencies.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
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 Oyen, Henry
