peavey

Example Sentences

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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

The rivermen, without hesitation, as calmly as though catastrophe had not thrown the weight of its moral terror against their stoicism, sprang, peavey in hand, to the insistent work.

From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward

The other dropped his peavey, heaved him up in his arms and, thus burdened, made for shore.

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

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

From The Snow-Burner by Oyen, Henry