peavey

英 ['piːvɪ] 美['pivi]
  • n. (林业工人翻动木材的)钩棍

英英释义


1. a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs

英文词源


peavey (n.)
"pointed cant hook," a lumbering hook, 1878, said to be named for a John Peavey, blacksmith in Bolivar, N.Y., who supposedly invented it c. 1872. Other sources ascribe it to a Joseph Peavey of Stillwater, Maine, and give a date of 1858.

词态变化


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