Synonyms for peavey
| 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
- "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- When Peavey's automobile had been withdrawn, she had tried Gilday, only to find him out of town.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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