To lose one's peavy is, among rivermen, the most mortifying disgrace.
Hurley reached for a peavy that stood in the corner behind the door.
The big boss leaned upon hispeavy and regarded Connie thoughtfully.
He spat upon the palms of his hands, and as he gripped the peavy the muscles of his huge forearm stood out like steel cables.
He passed a rough hand across his forehead as the peavy crashed to the floor.
Wait--" In his wrath the man hurled the paper to the floor, and reached for his mackinaw with one hand, and his peavy with the other.
He struggled into his mackinaw and reached fer the peavy that lay where it had fallen beside the stove.
Hurley banged the peavy down upon the wooden floor.
Hurley tossed the peavyinto its corner and proceeded to unlace his boots.
The firm of Peavy and Curtiss of Pawnee City were the contractors and the contract price was $4,000.
Gosh, if we had a few axes and peavy sticks now we could get out there and make that bunch look sick, but all have rifles and revolvers.
A peavy stick is a heavy pole about six feet long, with a sharp iron point at the end.
The lumberjacks are experts in the use of the peavy stick, and it is a pretty sight to see them load a great trunk onto a flat car to be drawn away.
A dozen men then seize their peavy sticks, as they are called in Maine, or cant dogs in some other places where lumbering is done, and roll the tree over.
To think we let a bunch like that crowd outside there put it over on us; men that have fought with rifle and peavy stick when some crowd tried to steal the river from us.
Peavy at this very point where he met the uncourteous band who had progressed by water.
Mr. Chairman, I move that Colonel Peavy and Amos Ridings escort the nominee to the platform.
Of this sort were men like Colonel Peavy and old Judd Colwell.
Following this intimation, Colonel Peavy presented a slate, wherein all the leading places on the ticket had been given "to the men who stood so long for the principles of Jackson and Jefferson.
Colonel Peavy wrapped his handkerchief around his, thus drawing upon himself the attack of the entire crowd, and he was forced to retreat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peavy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
