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pickax
[ pik-aks ]
noun
- a pick, especially a mattock.
verb (used with object)
- to cut or clear away with a pickax.
verb (used without object)
- to use a pickax.
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Black also shows off his prop pickax and runs across the theater hyping up fans before the showing starts.
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.
The carvings depict bighorn sheep, bisected circles and at one site, a miner swinging a pickax.
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.
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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