Although the thing consumed smoke surprisingly well, it likewise unharnessed such an amazing army of heat-units that it melted the crown-sheet of the boiler; whereupon the sawmill men, being singularly coarse and unimaginative fellows, set upon the patentee and his partner with ash-rakes, draw-bars, and other ordinary, unpatented implements; a lumberjack beat hollowly upon their ribs with a peavy, and that night young Anderson sickened of smoke-consumers, harked anew to the call of journalism, and hiked, arriving in Buffalo with seven dollars and fifty cents to the good.
"Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories"
Rex Beach
"peavy-stick flipped on me," growled the young man, willing to hide his humiliation from at least one person in the world-and the hermit of the Jerusalem station seemed to be the only one sufficiently isolated.
"King Spruce, A Novel"
Holman Day
It seemed he could use a peavy, or canthook, pretty well, having done something besides sailing in his day.
"Carolyn of the Corners"
Ruth Belmore Endicott