peavey

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

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

From The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen

The Tucker twins were each handed an iron-shod woodsman's peavey and were shown how the speed of the pung might be retarded by dragging them in the crust on either side.

From Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp by Alice B. Emerson

Then, as a man pries jack-straws, he clamped his peavey and tugged sharply.

From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

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

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

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

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

They leaned on their peaveys or squatted on the rocks, watching the river nonchalantly.

From Lost Farm Camp by Harry Herbert Knibbs