Lexicographical Neighbors of Peaveys
Literary usage of Peaveys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oral English in Secondary Schools by William Palmer Smith (1913)
"Thirty feet above the bed of the river six men clamped their peaveys into the
soft pine; jerking, pulling, sliding the great logs from their places. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of by Vermont Supreme Court (1893)
"At this time the peaveys did not know that the property had been conveyed, ...
The peaveys occupied the premises until the expiration of their lease, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon by Oregon Supreme Court (1922)
"... and going upon the riparian owner's private lands for reclaiming stranded
logs, or aiding with their peaveys the passage of the logs in the stream, ..."
4. Handwork in Wood by William Noyes (1910)
"iS six men clamped thelr peaveys ing, sliding the great logs from threatening
face, six other men one, the timbers not inextricably creaked, settled, ..."
5. Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States by Ralph Clement Bryant (1913)
"In river driving, to drag stranded logs back to the stream by the use of peaveys.
(NF) Hovel, n. A stable for logging teams. (NW, LS) Ice a road, to. ..."
6. Maine: A History by Louis Clinton Hatch, Maine Historical Society, American Historical Society (1919)
"The noted lumberman John Ross once declared in a lumberman's meeting that with
a Maynard boat and six men with peaveys he could do more than with twenty men ..."
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