单词 | peavey |
例句 | He rolled them over with a peavey and pounded them with the flat face of a splitting maul, testing for the ringing tone that indicated soundness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A dozen axes and peaveys had been pulled out of a barrel and thrown on the floor, to see if perchance they had hidden anything good to eat. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z Once its balance was passed, the sawyer struck the grappling chains loose with his peavey, and, with a rattle, they fell clear, while the prostrate giant lumbered ponderously into the mill. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Not an axe, peavey or cant-hook was touched; not a team was hitched up. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z Below was chaos, and groups of little men—pygmies—tugged and strained at their peaveys, striving to rearrange things as they thought they should be. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z Over the turmoil the rivermen fled for shore, each man balancing himself with his peavey, held low across his body. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Joe had taken the wooden handles from his hoes, rakes, and peaveys. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z The boom was manned by men who sat around smoking, peavey in hand, ready to handle the mightiest "ninety-footers" that the mountain forests could send them. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z And no man dared to give his peavey that one cunning twist. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z They leaned on their peaveys or squatted on the rocks, watching the river nonchalantly. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z The other dropped his peavey, heaved him up in his arms and, thus burdened, made for shore. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Joe used his peavey to roll half a dozen of the seasoned oak and hickory logs over a long chain, bound the chain around them, and hitched the mules to it. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z 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 One cunning twist of a peavey would have sent a dozen logs tumbling over the brink on his head. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z But the peavey’s attenuated brother, the pike-pole, was a worker of miracles in the hands of his master, the driver. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z Below them a man clamped his peavey into a log at the base of the pile and swung back on it so that the tough stock bent like a whip. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Joe shouldered a peavey—a logger's hook—and let Tad drive the mules to the wood lot. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z I don't need no men, let alone a greener that don't know a peavey from a bark spud. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest He'd brain ye with a peavey if you give him any back talk. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Then the sluggish blood leaped to his face and he stooped for the peavey at his feet, but David’s foot was on it like a flash. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z Now get off o’ these booms, or I’ll bash in your head with a peavey. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Joe slanted and braced two short logs against the wagon and used his peavey to roll one of the heavier logs toward them. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z She had picked up a peavey one of the timbermen had left on this bank and was using is as a staff as she watched the "freshet" start. Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies The handles of the peaveys were braced against the end staffs of the pung, and to keep them in position did not exceed the twins' strength. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp There were some old-fashioned pick-poles, straight, heavy levers without any "dog," and there were modern pick-poles and peaveys, for every river has its favorite equipment in these things. Homespun Tales I want to wear spiked boots and ride a stick in white water and use a peavey. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Four of them, holding their peaveys across their bodies, jumped lightly from one floating log to another in the zigzag to shore. The Blazed Trail She balanced herself on the rushing log with the help of the peavey. Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies There were some old-fashioned pick-poles, straight, heavy levers without any “dog,” and there were modern pick-poles and peaveys, for every river has its favorite equipment in these things. Rose O' the River Each had clung to his peavey, as is the habit of rivermen. The Blazed Trail The drive was strung for miles, and all along the banks prowled husky rivermen, peavey or pike pole in hand, keeping the sticks hustling. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Then, as a man pries jack-straws, he clamped his peavey and tugged sharply. The Blazed Trail Calmly, with matter-of-fact directness, as though they had not achieved the impossible; as though they, a handful, had not cheated nature and powerful enemies, they shouldered their peaveys and struck into the broad wagon road. The Blazed Trail Sometimes under the urging of the peaveys, but a single stick would slide down; or again a double tier would cascade with the roar of a little Niagara. The Blazed Trail A peavey is like a cant-hook except that it is pointed at the end. The Blazed Trail He developed a fair amount of skill with a peavey, and he derived a fierce satisfaction from each log that he twisted from its resting place and rolled into free water. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Others, waist deep in the water, clamped the jaws of their peaveys into the stubborn timbers, and, shoulder bent, slid them slowly but surely into the swifter waters. The Blazed Trail Occasionally he lent a shoulder when the peaveys lacked of prying a stubborn log from its bed. The Blazed Trail Men with spiked boots ran here and there from one bobbing log to another, pushing with their peaveys, hurrying one log, retarding another, working like beavers to keep the whole mass straight. The Blazed Trail The little group bobbed away irregularly into the distance, springing lightly from one timber to the other, holding their quaintly-fashioned peaveys in the manner of a rope dancer's balancing pole. The Blazed Trail McCane laid him out a couple of years ago with a peavey, and he hates him. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Tradition claimed that only once in a long woods life had Shearer been forced to "take water" before a breaking rollway: and then he saved his peavey. The Blazed Trail It was cruel hard work; a man who has lifted his utmost strength into a peavey knows that. The Blazed Trail Each bent his knees, inserting his shoulder under the projecting peavey stock, to straighten in a mighty effort. The Blazed Trail The crew redoubled its exertions, clamping its peaveys here and there, apparently at random, but in reality with the most definite of purposes. The Blazed Trail But he nigh brained me with a peavey once, when I had only my bare hands. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z The rivermen, without hesitation, as calmly as though catastrophe had not thrown the weight of its moral terror against their stoicism, sprang, peavey in hand, to the insistent work. The Blazed Trail With their short peaveys, the drivers were enabled to prevent the timbers from swirling in the eddies—one of the first causes of a jam. The Blazed Trail They carried in racks a great supply of pike-poles, peaveys, axes, rope and dynamite, for use in various emergencies. The Blazed Trail He badgered the others until they threw bark at him and menaced him with their peaveys. The Blazed Trail |
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