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
The ice is black an’ rotten, an’ the rollways is piled high, So boost upon yer peavey sticks while I do tell ye why-y-y.
From The Boss of Wind River by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)
Joe slanted and braced two short logs against the wagon and used his peavey to roll one of the heavier logs toward them.
From The Lost Wagon by Kjelgaard, James Arthur
And no man dared to give his peavey that one cunning twist.
From The Snow-Burner by Oyen, Henry
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 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
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
Joe had taken the wooden handles from his hoes, rakes, and peaveys.
From The Lost Wagon by Kjelgaard, James Arthur
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 Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
