peavy

We want a peavy or two—them’s the best tools,” said one of the men.

From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott

There he stood on some prominent point, leaning his chin contemplatively against the thick shaft of his peavy, watching the endless procession of the logs drifting by.

From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White

Pete Lebree had money and land, Paul of Olamon had none, Only his peavy and driving pole, his birch canoe and his gun.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

The person addressed first looked extremely astonished; then shouldered his peavy and started for camp, leaving the diminished rear a prey to curiosity.

From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by Stewart Edward White

Then he dropped his peavy and stepped aside.

From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White

Resting on their peavies, the men glanced at me curiously.

From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

These the men sometimes, waist deep in the icy water, owing to the extreme inequality of the bottom, were rolling over and over with their peavies until once more they floated.

From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White

The click! clank! clank! of their peavies sounded like the valves of some great engine, so regular was the periodicity of their metallic recurrence.

From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

By three, just as the dawn was beginning to differentiate the east from the west, the regular clank, clank, clink of the peavies proclaimed that due advantage of the high water was being seized.

From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by Stewart Edward White

Men were catching up ropes, chains, peavies, and pike poles and hurrying off into the darkness.

From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm