Crossword clues for peavey
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.
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.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of peavy English)
WordNet
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
A peavey or peavey hook is a logging tool consisting of a handle, generally from long, with a metal spike protruding from the end. The spike is rammed into a log, then a hook (at the end of an arm attached to a pivot a short distance up the handle) grabs the log at a second location. Once engaged, the handle gives the operator leverage to roll or slide or float the log to a new position.
The peavey was named for blacksmith Joseph Peavey of Upper Stillwater, Maine, who invented the tool as a refinement to the cant hook (also known as a "cant dog") in the 1850s. Many lumberjacks use the terms interchangeably, though a peavey will have a spike in the end of the handle, and a cant dog will have a blunt end or possibly small teeth for friction.
The Peavey Manufacturing Co. is still located in Eddington, Maine and manufactures several variations.
Peavey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Hartley Peavey (born 1941), American businessman, founder of Peavey Electronics
- Henry Peavey (1882–1931), American murder suspect
- Hubert H. Peavey (1881–1937), American politician
- Jack Peavey (born 1963), American football player
- John Peavey (born 1933), American politician
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.