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

The drive was strung for miles, and all along the banks prowled husky rivermen, peavey or pike pole in hand, keeping the sticks hustling.

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

Tradition claimed that only once in a long woods life had Shearer been forced to "take water" before a breaking rollway: and then he saved his peavey.

From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

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

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 chain-links to be forged and fitted to broken chains; sharp two-inch calks to be driven into the horses’ shoes, peaveys and cant-hooks to be repaired.

From The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen

Men with spiked boots ran here and there from one bobbing log to another, pushing with their peaveys, hurrying one log, retarding another, working like beavers to keep the whole mass straight.

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

With their short peaveys, the drivers were enabled to prevent the timbers from swirling in the eddies—one of the first causes of a jam.

From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White