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
Once its balance was passed, the sawyer struck the grappling chains loose with his peavey, and, with a rattle, they fell clear, while the prostrate giant lumbered ponderously into the mill.
From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum
The boom was manned by men who sat around smoking, peavey in hand, ready to handle the mightiest "ninety-footers" that the mountain forests could send them.
From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum
Each bent his knees, inserting his shoulder under the projecting peavey stock, to straighten in a mighty effort.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
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
There were some old-fashioned pick-poles, straight, heavy levers without any “dog,” and there were modern pick-poles and peaveys, for every river has its favorite equipment in these things.
From Rose O' the River by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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
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 Stewart Edward White
Fallon and Stromberg leaped forward and simultaneously their peaveys bit into the smaller of the two key-logs.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
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