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a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
they used picks and sledges to break the rocks
How To Use pickax In A Sentence
- They dig through the debris by hand or with pickaxes and shovels, in hopes of finding anyone alive.
- The tradesman leaves his counter, and the car – man his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand – boy his parcels; the school – boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore. Oliver Twist
- Pickaxe, grosse feeding and labour, do quench al sensual and fleshly concupiscence, yea, in such as till and husband the ground, by making them dull, blockish, and (almost) meere senslesse of understanding. The Decameron
- All worship the pickaxe, which is symbolical of their profession, and an oath sworn on it binds closer than on the Koran. Himalayan Journals — Complete
- (The name of the operation is Pashto for "pickaxe-handle".) WN.com - Articles related to Afghan ex-spy boss calls peace strategy dangerous
- He thought it was a stick or the handle of a pickaxe.
- $feature { 'pickaxe'} { 'default'} = [1]; $feature { 'pickaxe'} { 'override'} = [1]; Ubuntu Forums
- As he made some more markings with his chalk, he concluded that all the levers were probably trapped and he produced his pickaxe from his backpack and started hacking his way through the wall. D&D last night
- He'd lied to Chance and Bandana, said he was checking for a pickax he might have left at the mine site, but he was looking for Fancy. PAINT THE WIND
- It took six hours for his men to row out there and attack the rocks with pickaxes and another six to row back.