Definitions for peaveys

peaveys pea·vey

Spelling: [pee-vee]
IPA: /ˈpi vi/

Peaveys is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in peaveys (aeepsvy).

Definitions for peaveys

noun

  1. a cant hook with a sharply pointed end, used in handling logs.

Origin of peaveys

1865-70, Americanism; named after Joseph Peavey, its inventor

Examples for peaveys

A peavey is like a cant-hook except that it is pointed at the end.

Then, as a man pries jack-straws, he clamped his peavey and tugged sharply.

Now get off o these booms, or Ill bash in your head with a peavey.

She laughed, and thinking of peavey, blushed under his quick gaze.

When peavey's automobile had been withdrawn, she had tried Gilday, only to find him out of town.

"I don't want to seem too prominent in this campaign," he said to Colonel peavey.

If it were true, then what had she sought with peavey, if not to be his wife—what, then?

Only peavey could tell her, make her certain of the truth or falsity of this story.

But he nigh brained me with a peavey once, when I had only my bare hands.

If they happen to have peavey handles they might bring them along.

Word Value for peaveys
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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