peavey

Example Sentences

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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

And no man dared to give his peavey that one cunning twist.

From The Snow-Burner by Oyen, Henry

She had picked up a peavey one of the timbermen had left on this bank and was using is as a staff as she watched the "freshet" start.

From Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies by Emerson, Alice B.