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An opening was made in the piles, and the rivermen, with pike-pole and peavy, began cautiously to dig their way through the tangled timbers.

From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White

He hit it with a splash that threw the water high to either side, immediately caught his equilibrium, and set to work with his peavy.

From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

Then he dropped his peavy and stepped aside.

From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White

It seemed he could use a peavy, or canthook, pretty well, having done something besides sailing in his day.

From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott

Of course he had nerve, and could do anything with a log and a peavy, and would fight at the drop of a hat—any "bully boy" would qualify there—but also he had judgment.

From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by Stewart Edward White

These men, quite simply, walked to the edges of the rollway, rolled a log apiece into the water, stepped aboard, leaned against their peavies, and were swept away by the swift current.

From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White

Instead, they stood at attention, their peavies poised, watching cat-eyed the symptoms of the break.

From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White

So they dug with the peavies for three days, and nothing happened.

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

In the storerooms of hardware firms porters carried and clerks checked off chains, strap iron, bolts, spikes, staples, band iron, bar iron, peavies, cant-hooks, pike-poles, sledge-hammers, blocks, ropes, and cables.

From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White

These things fascinated him and held him with a longing for them, like revolvers and razors and carpenter's chisels and peavies and all other business-like tools of a trade.

From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Worth Brehm