Buzzie

Dredging wasn't mining. A man had to know something about lode mining, and could Andy name a man working on the boat who knew a muckstick from a buzzie?

Both buzzies were broke down. Burke left me alone to do my work. I disconnected teh compressed-air lines, opened my tool box and got at it.

Technology such as steam-powered hoists and "buzzies," hand-held, two-man air drills, speeded up production but did nothing to improve working conditions. The buzzies, in fact, produced so much fine dust that they led to a higher rate of silicosis, a debilitating respiratory disease, and were soon dubbed "widowmakers."

That's a fair pair of buzzies you've got there.

A nod an carry on dancing, bouncin about madly, glad a wore me sports bra - if a hadn't've then me buzzies'd be in agony by now.

The brilliant qualities of the Diritto and the Curvo seem to lend themselves to use with sackbutts or large mixed ensembles composed of "buzzies" such as shawms, racketts, and crumhorns.

...a large family of capped reeds, often referred to collectively and affectionately as buzzies, which contains many straight, cylindrical bore instruments such as Cornemusen (a term sometimes applied in general to the family), Schreierpfeiffen, and a modern generic reproduction known as the Glastonbury Pipe, to be discussed in more detail further on.

The “buzzies,” capped double-reed instruments like the crumhorn, the dulcian, the rankett (or “rackett”), provide a change of sonority, and sometimes an outburst of hilarity, when one of them is used or a consort is played together.