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

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

From The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen

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.

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

Mansell was at the opening, waiting, peavey in hand.

From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum

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

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

Four of them, holding their peaveys across their bodies, jumped lightly from one floating log to another in the zigzag to shore.

From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

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 handles of the peaveys were braced against the end staffs of the pung, and to keep them in position did not exceed the twins' strength.

From Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp by Alice B. Emerson