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Peavy

Definition: Peavy

Peavy

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Peavy" is a common misspelling or typo for: Peaky, Peavey.

 

Specialty Definitions: Peavy

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

A stout wooden lever, 2 1/2 to 8ft(0. 8 to 2. 4m)long, fitted into a tapered metal socket terminating in a steel pike and carrying towards its upper end a hinged steel hook(i. e. , the dog); used mainly in turning and handling logs. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Peavy

Synonyms: cant dog (n), peavey (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Peavy

Specialty definitions using "peavy": log handler, LOG ROLLER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Peavy

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Peavy

The following table summarizes the usage of "peavy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
PeavyLast name1,0007,877
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Peavy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

peavy

162

lynn peavy

4

jake peavy

21

5150 peavy

3

guitar peavy

20

peavy guitar amps

3

amps peavy

18

bass guitar peavy

3

mart peavy

14

music peavy

3

peavy speaker

11

amplification peavy

3

peavy amplifier

9

peavy predator

3

drum peavy

5

microphone peavy

2

electronics peavy

5

arboretum peavy

2

peavy plaza

5

peavy wolfgang

2

amp peavy

4

pa peavy system

2

hose pantie peavy

4

com peavy

2
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Modern Translations: Peavy

Language Translations for "peavy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Kanxhë (coupling, crampon, drag, gaff, grab, grapnel, grapple, grappling iron, hook, Peavey, peg, pothook). (various references)

   

Danish

  

vendekrog (cant hook, lumberman's log rolling tool, peavey, peavie). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kantelhaak (peavey, peavie), handsappie (peavey, peavie). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vänkäri (peavey, peavie), kääntöhaka (peavey, peavie). (various references)

   

French

  

sapi (peavey, peavie). (various references)

   

German

  

Wendehaken (peavey, peavie), Sapine (peavey, peavie). (various references)

   

Italian

  

zappino (peavey, peavie). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eavypay

   

Portuguese

  

croques (peavey, peavie), ãsappiã (peavey, peavie). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bichero con gancho de uña (peavey, peavie). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vändhake (peavey, peavie), stockhake (peavey, peavie). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Peavy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "peavy" (pronounced pē"vē)
4p ē" v ēPeavey.
3-ē" v ēLeavy.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Peavy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-p-v-y"

-1 letter: pave.

-2 letters: ape, ave, aye, pay, pea, pya, pye, yap, yea, yep.

-3 letters: ae, ay, pa, pe, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-p-v-y"
 

+1 letter: peavey.

 

+2 letters: overpay, peaveys.

 

+3 letters: overpays, overplay, pyruvate, vespiary.

 

+4 letters: depravity, overplays, passively, privately, pyruvates.

 

+5 letters: adaptively, adoptively, depravedly, everyplace, optatively, overpaying, overplayed, polyvalent, primevally, purveyance, putatively, superheavy, venography.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Peavy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 65 61 76 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100101 01100001 01110110 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#97 &#118 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 0061 0076 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5071678891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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