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)

The ice is black an’ rotten, an’ the rollways is piled high, So boost upon yer peavey sticks while I do tell ye why-y-y.

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

Each had clung to his peavey, as is the habit of rivermen.

From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward