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
Below them a man clamped his peavey into a log at the base of the pile and swung back on it so that the tough stock bent like a whip.
From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
I want to wear spiked boots and ride a stick in white water and use a peavey.
From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
She balanced herself on the rushing log with the help of the peavey.
From Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies by Alice B. Emerson
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
The crew redoubled its exertions, clamping its peaveys here and there, apparently at random, but in reality with the most definite of purposes.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
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 Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Sometimes under the urging of the peaveys, but a single stick would slide down; or again a double tier would cascade with the roar of a little Niagara.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
The little group bobbed away irregularly into the distance, springing lightly from one timber to the other, holding their quaintly-fashioned peaveys in the manner of a rope dancer's balancing pole.
From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White
