peavey

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.

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.

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.

Not an axe, peavey or cant-hook was touched; not a team was hitched up.

But the peavey’s attenuated brother, the pike-pole, was a worker of miracles in the hands of his master, the driver.