Crossword-Solution: PEAVEYS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Men with spiked boots ran here and there from one bobbing log to another, pushing with their peaveys, hurrying one log, retarding another, working like beavers to keep the whole mass straight.

The little group bobbed away irregularly into the distance, springing lightly from one timber to the other, holding their quaintly-fashioned peaveys in the manner of a rope dancer's balancing pole.

Thirty feet above the bed of the river six men clamped their peaveys into the soft pine; jerking, pulling, lifting, sliding the great logs from their places.

Four of them, holding their peaveys across their bodies, jumped lightly from one floating log to another in the zigzag to shore.

The crew redoubled its exertions, clamping its peaveys here and there, apparently at random, but in reality with the most definite of purposes.