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pickax

or 辱·

[ pik-aks ]

noun

plural pickaxes.
  1. a pick, especially a mattock.


verb (used with object)

pickaxed, pickaxing.
  1. to cut or clear away with a pickax.

verb (used without object)

pickaxed, pickaxing.
  1. to use a pickax.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pickax1

1275–1325; pick 2 + ax; replacing Middle English picois < Middle French, Old French; akin to French pic pick 2. See pique 1
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Black also shows off his prop pickax and runs across the theater hyping up fans before the showing starts.

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The Gold Diggers logo featured a bearded man, who appeared to be a miner, carrying a pickax over his shoulder and wearing a headlamp with a baseball where the light should be.

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The carvings depict bighorn sheep, bisected circles and at one site, a miner swinging a pickax.

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The Californians who got seriously rich in the 1850s didn’t pick up pickaxes; they sold them, along with eggs and boots and soap to the men who did.

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As I leave, men with pickaxes and shovels are making slow progress in the rubble and Hussein prepares to erect a tent on what was left of his home.

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