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Grammar : Noun
Spell : pee-vee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpi vi

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Définition of peavey

Origin :
  • "pointed cant hook," a lumbering hook, 1878, said to be named for a John Peavey, blacksmith in Bolivar, N.Y., who supposedly invented it c.1872. Other sources ascribe it to a Joseph Peavey of Stillwater, Maine, and give a date of 1858.
  • As in lever : noun machine
Example sentences :
  • "I don't want to seem too prominent in this campaign," he said to Colonel Peavey.
  • Extract from : « A Spoil of Office » by Hamlin Garland
  • If they happen to have peavey handles they might bring them along.
  • Extract from : « Sudden Jim » by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • But he nigh brained me with a peavey once, when I had only my bare hands.
  • Extract from : « The Boss of Wind River » by David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
  • Now get off o these booms, or Ill bash in your head with a peavey.
  • Extract from : « The Boss of Wind River » by David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
  • Then, as a man pries jack-straws, he clamped his peavey and tugged sharply.
  • Extract from : « The Blazed Trail » by Stewart Edward White
  • A peavey is like a cant-hook except that it is pointed at the end.
  • Extract from : « The Blazed Trail » by Stewart Edward White
  • If it were true, then what had she sought with Peavey, if not to be his wife—what, then?
  • Extract from : « The Salamander » by Owen Johnson
  • When Peavey's automobile had been withdrawn, she had tried Gilday, only to find him out of town.
  • Extract from : « The Salamander » by Owen Johnson
  • Only Peavey could tell her, make her certain of the truth or falsity of this story.
  • Extract from : « The Salamander » by Owen Johnson
  • She laughed, and thinking of Peavey, blushed under his quick gaze.
  • Extract from : « The Salamander » by Owen Johnson

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