peavy
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An opening was made in the piles, and the rivermen, with pike-pole and peavy, began cautiously to dig their way through the tangled timbers.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
The peavy bit into the ice, and the scooter rocked out from the wharf.
From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Grace Brooks Hill
He hit it with a splash that threw the water high to either side, immediately caught his equilibrium, and set to work with his peavy.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
The latter had lingered in hopes of rescuing his peavy, which had gone overboard.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
Guess you feel good when you see a boy swingin' an axe, or handlin' a peavy.
From The Man in the Twilight by Ridgwell Cullum
Sometimes a dozen of them would clamp their peavies on either side, and by sheer brute force carry the stick to deep water.
From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life 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
So the two scrambled down from the logs and hunted about for two long sticks that would answer for the peavies the timber-jacks used.
From Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
A landing is built of cribwork and the logs are simply rolled on the truck with peavies or cant hooks, or a parbuckle system with skids and horses is used.
From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Frederick Malcolm Knapp
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
