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Definition of Pickaxing
1. pickaxe [v] - See also: pickaxe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickaxing
Literary usage of Pickaxing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... and costly architecture; not a slight pickaxing of the ground, which ie mean,
and too like the temporary stage of a mountebank and hie puppets. ..."
2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1869)
"... and apparently bent on pickaxing their very foothold from under themselves.
Lot 1 and the rest of the lots were carted off as old building materials; ..."
3. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1873)
"He asks one to dinner—and one has an eye for the run of a stream ; one does a
little bit of pickaxing in the afternoon on one's own account,—and walks off ..."
4. Log-letters from "The Challenger" by George Campbell (1877)
"Arrived at the bottom, we wandered along bewildering and endless underground
galleries, each of us holding a candle, saw the miners pickaxing and blasting, ..."
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