peavey
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A dozen axes and peaveys had been pulled out of a barrel and thrown on the floor, to see if perchance they had hidden anything good to eat.
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Once its balance was passed, the sawyer struck the grappling chains loose with his peavey, and, with a rattle, they fell clear, while the prostrate giant lumbered ponderously into the mill.
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Not an axe, peavey or cant-hook was touched; not a team was hitched up.
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But the peavey’s attenuated brother, the pike-pole, was a worker of miracles in the hands of his master, the driver.
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He developed a fair amount of skill with a peavey, and he derived a fierce satisfaction from each log that he twisted from its resting place and rolled into free water.
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