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ersatz-read.livejournal.compeavey ('pee-vee) noun.
A long-handled tool used for levering and maneuvering logs. The business end has a pivoting hooked metal arm, and is tipped with a metal spike.
Compare to cant hook, which has the same pivoting arm, but a blunt or toothed end cap in place of the metal spike.
Cant hooks came first, and are used in sawmills; the peavey was specifically invented for driving logs on rivers.
More details here. It looks like some sort of hinged medieval polearm.
Origin: named after its American inventor, Joseph Peavey, in 1858.
I first ran across the word in Noel Perrin's Second Person Rural: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer. I've wanted one ever since.
( this week's poem behind the cut... )
(Hey, lots of people write poems about zucchini....)
I will attempt to post something coherent next Sunday, but it will be somewhere between hour 40 and hour 54 of the Stevens Point trivia contest.
A long-handled tool used for levering and maneuvering logs. The business end has a pivoting hooked metal arm, and is tipped with a metal spike.
Compare to cant hook, which has the same pivoting arm, but a blunt or toothed end cap in place of the metal spike.
Cant hooks came first, and are used in sawmills; the peavey was specifically invented for driving logs on rivers.
More details here. It looks like some sort of hinged medieval polearm.
Origin: named after its American inventor, Joseph Peavey, in 1858.
I first ran across the word in Noel Perrin's Second Person Rural: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer. I've wanted one ever since.
( this week's poem behind the cut... )
(Hey, lots of people write poems about zucchini....)
I will attempt to post something coherent next Sunday, but it will be somewhere between hour 40 and hour 54 of the Stevens Point trivia contest.
