peavies

With their pike-poles and peavies and bateaus and all

The Badger Drive 1996

They held their peavies across their bodies as balancing-poles, and zig-zagged ashore with a calmness and lack of haste that were in reality only an indication of the keenness with which they fore-estimated each chance.

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

They clamped their peavies to the reluctant timbers, heaved, pushed, slid, and rolled them one by one into the current, where they were caught and borne away.

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

I picked my way down a well-worn trail toward the regular _clank, clank, click_ of the peavies.

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

A half-dozen men with peavies rolled a white-pine log of about a foot and a half in diameter into the clear water, where it lay rocking back and forth, three or four feet from the boom piles.

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

A half-dozen watchers, leaning statuesquely on the shafts of their peavies, watched the ordered ranks pass by.

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

For one moment they stared into his face, and then with a wild yell dropped their peavies and fled toward the bunk-house.

The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

Thorpe greeted the cook and old Jackson Hines, the only two whom he knew, and set to work to tie up bundles of blankets, and to collect axes, peavies, and tools of all descriptions.

The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

They held their peavies across their bodies as balancing-poles, and zig-zagged ashore with a calmness and lack of haste that were in reality only an indication of the keenness with which they fore-estimated each chance.

Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Stewart Edward White 1909

By three, just as the dawn was beginning to differentiate the east from the west, the regular _clank, clank, clink_ of the peavies proclaimed that due advantage of the high water was being seized.

Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Stewart Edward White 1909