[
UK
/pˈɪkæks/
]
NOUN
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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 pickaxe In A Sentence
- It took six hours for his men to row out there and attack the rocks with pickaxes and another six to row back.
- Ã The story then jumps ahead 10 years to slow down and let us get used to some of these characters before they get pickaxed, as well. Review: ‘My Bloody Valentine 3-D’ | We Are Movie Geeks
- Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
- Leave me a small supply of biscuit, a gun, powder, and balls, to kill the kids or defend myself at need, and a pickaxe, that I may build a shelter if you delay in coming back for me.
- One of the robbers was carrying a pickaxe handle and the other a lumphammer.
- They bought a pickaxe, you know, these toy pickaxes, and they bought hard hats with lights on them and a flag from Chile. The Hottest 2010 Halloween Costumes
- Exposed to the boiling sun of the tropic region, he pickaxed and carried earth on a pole for 7 years, not having proper rests.
- March 19: We left camp in a haze of bitter cold; the ice conditions about the same as the previous day; high rafters, huge and jagged; and we pickaxed the way continuously. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
- They dig through the debris by hand or with pickaxes and shovels, in hopes of finding anyone alive.
- 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