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A stout lever with a sharp spike
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peavey
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pointed cant hook," a lumbering hook, 1878, said to be named for a John Peavey , blacksmith in Bolivar, N.Y., who supposedly invented it c.1872. Other sources ascribe it to a Joseph Peavey of Stillwater, Maine, and give a date of 1858.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs [syn: peavy , cant dog ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Peavey may refer to: Peavey (surname) Peavey (tool) , a logging tool Peavey Electronics , an American audio equipment manufacturer Peavey Company, a former name of Gavilon
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of peavy English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peavey \Pea"vey\, Peavy \Pea"vy\, n. [Said to be from the inventor's name.] (Lumbering) A cant hook having the end of its lever armed with a spike.
Usage examples of peavey.
Finally he gives up, smashes the old lock with the peavey, and levers up the lid (the Bents have always learned leverage as they got old, working efficiently long after strength has gone).
You're another peavey made out of a cant hook - only you don't even know what you started out to be.
Subble decided not to inquire what the difference was between a peavey and a cant hook.
You're another peavey made out of a cant hook-only you don't even know what you started out to be.
Peavey came to live with us, the rec room became her bedroom, and she always set the goblet right in the middle of the center square.
Peavey poured me a glass of cranberry juice, filled her silver goblet with ice and water, and sat down at the kitchen table.
All that water reminded her of the Peavey Plaza fountain, and the glaistig with her cold voice and ominous little fangs.
We loaded the logs onto the trucks by hand, using peaveys or cant dogs.
The town's oldest families loaned freely of their almost priceless treasures, and during the week of the festival nearly forty thousand visitors paid a quarter each to look at eating-house menus from the 1890s, loggers' bitts, axes, and peaveys from the 1880s, children's toys from the 1920s, and over two thousand photographs and nine reels of movie film of life as it had been in Derry over the last hundred years.