单词 | peavey |
释义 | peaveyn. North American regional (chiefly northern). A lumberer's cant hook with a spike at the end. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > lumberer's hook pike-pole1765 picaroon1837 pickpole1837 fid-hook1851 driving-pike1877 swamp-hook1877 peavey1878 Samson1905 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > lever for turning timber cant-hooka1848 cant-dog1850 peavey1907 1878 Lumberman's Gaz. 16 Mar. The best cast steel Pevy made in the world. 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 714/2 The banking-ground swarms with men armed with pevies (which are cant-hooks furnished with strong pikes in the end). 1907 Black Cat June 24 Mehetabel launched the boat, and running along the logs, piloted it hither and thither hooked to a pivie. 1941 in E. C. Beck Songs Michigan Lumberjacks ii. 49 With jam pikes and with peaveys These brave men nobly go. 1944 M. Denison Klondike Mike i. v. 29 The kind of men I'm warning you against don't fight with gloves—no, not even with their fists. B'God, they'll use caulked boots or their teeth—even a cant-hook or a peavey if there's any handy. 1994 Trav. Guide 1994 Newfoundland & Labrador 90/1 Loggers had a hard life, and they had a lingo all their own... A peavie was a cant hook for rolling heavy timber. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1878 |
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