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.
Some few the rivermen were forced to carry bodily, ten men to a side, the peavies clamped in as handles.
Instead, they stood at attention, their peavies poised, watching cat-eyed the symptoms of the break.
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.
Boys," he commanded briefly, "get your peavies and come along.
So they dug with the peavies for three days, and nothing happened.
Their peavies clanked regularly, and the logs twirled out of their resting places and trundled into the stream.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quite coolly the rivermen made their way ashore, their peavies held like balancing poles across their bodies.
A dozen men ran out over the logs as though skylarking, inserted their peavies in a threatened lock, and pried it loose.
In extreme cases, when evidently the freshet water had dropped away from them, leaving them high and dry, a number of men would clamp on the jaws of their peavies and carry the logs bodily to the water.
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.
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.
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.
A half-dozen men with peavies rolled a white-pine log of about a foot and a half diameter into the clear water, where it lay rocking back and forth, three or four feet from the boom piles.
Sometimes a dozen of them would clamp their peavies on either side, and by sheer brute force carry the stick to deep water.
On the great jam itself men were at work with their peavies industriously picking at the huge logs, heaving and rolling them downward into the rapids beyond, where they might be caught and swept away by the current.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peavies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
