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peavey † peevie, peevy [origin uncertain]

• n. a strong pole or lever, 5 to 7 feet long, the end of which is furnished with a point of iron or steel and a hinged semicircular hook, used by loggers for directing logs in a drive, during booming operations, etc. [See picture at peavey]

  See also: drive ((n.)) (def. 1)  

  • This tool was almost certainly devised in the woods of New Brunswick and Maine, where the first large-scale lumbering operations were carried out on this continent. The claim has been advanced, but not proved, that aJ. B. Peavey of Bangor, Maine, was the inventor.