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单词 peavy
例句 peavy
The peavy bit into the ice, and the scooter rocked out from the wharf. The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z
Grind your axes, O my heroes, Point your peavies, file your saws; Let your ropes and chains and cables Be examined now for flaws. By Trench and Trail in Song and Story 2011-09-24T02:00:15.120Z
A landing is built of cribwork and the logs are simply rolled on the truck with peavies or cant hooks, or a parbuckle system with skids and horses is used. Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 2011-09-10T02:00:27.273Z
It seemed he could use a peavy, or canthook, pretty well, having done something besides sailing in his day. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z
The “peavy” is the Maine name for a slightly different variety of “cant-dog,” which takes its title from its maker in Old Town. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z
Their peavies clanked regularly, and the logs twirled out of their resting places and trundled into the stream. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z
They used peavies to roll logs into a compact pile and bound the chain around them. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z
So the two scrambled down from the logs and hunted about for two long sticks that would answer for the peavies the timber-jacks used. Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest
We want a peavy or two—them’s the best tools,” said one of the men. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z
We’ve tasted of This and we know what it lacks— We lonesome old baches— Of peavies and patches, Bills, Tommies, and Jacks of the Axe.” King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z
Here and there on the flanks of the wooden monster crews of men picked away with peavies. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z
A story was current of how he had once manhandled four drunken lumberjacks, in spite of peavies and sticks of cordwood. The Peace of Roaring River
This was sensible, so both children pushed their peavies into some smaller ice floes and managed to move the ponderous raft into a position so the large ice-floe could be moved. Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest
These things fascinated him and held him with a longing for them, like revolvers and razors and carpenter's chisels and peavies and all other business-like tools of a trade. The Adventures of Bobby Orde
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
So they dug with the peavies for three days, and nothing happened. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z
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
A peavy hook it is my pride, An ax I well can handle; To fell a tree or punch a bull Get rattling Danny Randall. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
We hitched three spans of them to a scoot that had wide, wooden shoes, and that was loaded high with bags of grain, harnesses, peavies, shovels, axes, and chains. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
He hit it with a splash that threw the water high to either side, immediately caught his equilibrium, and set to work with his peavy. The Rules of the Game
Men were catching up ropes, chains, peavies, and pike poles and hurrying off into the darkness. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z
Of course he had nerve, and could do anything with a log and a peavy, and would fight at the drop of a hat—any "bully boy" would qualify there—but also he had judgment. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
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
Resting on their peavies, the men glanced at me curiously. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
The click! clank! clank! of their peavies sounded like the valves of some great engine, so regular was the periodicity of their metallic recurrence. The Rules of the Game
Some few the rivermen were forced to carry bodily, ten men to a side, the peavies clamped in as handles. The Riverman
Sometimes a dozen of them would clamp their peavies on either side, and by sheer brute force carry the stick to deep water. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
A dozen men ran out over the logs as though skylarking, inserted their peavies in a threatened lock, and pried it loose. The Rules of the Game
These men, quite simply, walked to the edges of the rollway, rolled a log apiece into the water, stepped aboard, leaned against their peavies, and were swept away by the swift current. The Riverman
This man was standing on an extreme point, leaning on his peavy, watching the timbers float past. The Rules of the Game
Balancing his peavy across his body, he made his way by short dashes to the point of threatened congestion. The Riverman
The person addressed first looked extremely astonished; then shouldered his peavy and started for camp, leaving the diminished rear a prey to curiosity. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
There as many as could find room on either side the boom-poles clamped in their peavies, and, using these implements as handles, carried the booms some distance back into the woods. The Riverman
Then he dropped his peavy and stepped aside. The Riverman
Immediately the rivermen ran out on this tangle, and, after a moment devoted to inspection, set to work with their peavies. The Rules of the Game
First of all, the entire crew set itself, by means of its peavies, to rolling the lower logs into the current, where they were rapidly borne away. The Riverman
If the owners object, stand them off with your peavies. The Riverman
As man shouted to man, each shouldered his peavy and came running ashore, eager question on his lips. The Riverman
This they attacked with their peavies, rolling the top logs off into the current below. The Riverman
In some cases this merely meant pushing them afloat by means of the peavies. The Rules of the Game
The latter had lingered in hopes of rescuing his peavy, which had gone overboard. The Riverman
Instead, they stood at attention, their peavies poised, watching cat-eyed the symptoms of the break. The Riverman
Twice or thrice several of the men, observing something not evident to Newmark's unpractised eye, ran forward, used their peavies vigorously for a moment or so, and stood back to watch the result. The Riverman
But Orde had seized a peavy, and stood over against his antagonist, the murderous weapon upraised. The Riverman
Wherever the timbers caught or hesitated for a moment in their slow crushing forward, there a dozen men leaped savagely, to jerk, heave and pry with their heavy peavies. The Rules of the Game
To lose one's peavy is, among rivermen, the most mortifying disgrace. The Riverman
"Boys," he commanded briefly, "get your peavies and come along." The Riverman
These the men sometimes, waist deep in the icy water, owing to the extreme inequality of the bottom, were rolling over and over with their peavies until once more they floated. The Riverman
An opening was made in the piles, and the rivermen, with pike-pole and peavy, began cautiously to dig their way through the tangled timbers. The Riverman
Quite coolly the rivermen made their way ashore, their peavies held like balancing poles across their bodies. The Rules of the Game
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