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

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 Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)

Not an axe, peavey or cant-hook was touched; not a team was hitched up.

From The Snow-Burner by Oyen, Henry

Then the sluggish blood leaped to his face and he stooped for the peavey at his feet, but David’s foot was on it like a flash.

From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert