peaveys

Perched on that, anchored with their peaveys, they float downriver.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

They produced twelve thousand peaveys a year and were happy to sell one to Ben for $1.50.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

There were no other implements in sight, on any of the shelves, except for a couple of unwieldy lumberjacks 'peaveys.

Corpse in the Camera Crayne, J. D. 2003

The delicate work is harder, much harder, than hammering out braces or log peaveys.

The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

Thirty feet above the bed of the river six men clamped their peaveys into the soft pine; jerking, pulling, lifting, sliding the great logs from their places.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

*** Suddenly the six men below the jam scattered. *** holding their peaveys across their bodies, they jumped lightly from one floating log to another in the zig-zag to shore.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

Their boots are shod with "caulks," or spikes, to keep them from slipping on the logs, and they carry either pike poles or peaveys, Fig. 17.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

*** The crew redoubled its exertion, clamping its peaveys here and there, apparently at random, but in reality with the most definite of purposes.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

Up and down the bank he rushed, bellowing orders and hurling curses at the men who, gripping their peaveys, swarmed over the heaving jam like flies.

The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

Fallon and Stromberg leaped forward and simultaneously their peaveys bit into the smaller of the two key-logs.

The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921