peavy

Example Sentences

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A peavy hook it is my pride, An ax I well can handle; To fell a tree or punch a bull Get rattling Danny Randall.

From Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by Various

Tom North, leaning gracefully against the shaft of a peavy, looked up eagerly as his principal approached.

From The Riverman by White, Stewart Edward

This man was standing on an extreme point, leaning on his peavy, watching the timbers float past.

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward

The peavy bit into the ice, and the scooter rocked out from the wharf.

From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Hill, Grace Brooks

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 White, Stewart Edward