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Definition of Icepick
1. Noun. Pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice.
Definition of Icepick
1. Noun. A pointed tool, rather like an awl, used for breaking ice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Icepick
Literary usage of Icepick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"... measure by the condition of the icepick. Captain Hooper stated that he had
never known the current through the strait to exceed three knots per hour, ..."
2. The Origins of Invention: A Study of Industry Among Primitive Peoples by Otis Tufton Mason (1895)
"Its parts may be shaft, fore-shaft, loose shaft, toggle-head, icepick, assembling
line, toggle- head becket, leader, hand-rest and float. ..."
3. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1836)
"... for the said county, and for his icepick peace, [or, being of the good
behaviour,] in the mean time, xw^ our said lord the king and all his liege people ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"... arm it with a beak as sharp as an icepick and almost as formidable, and you
have a fair idea of this feathered giant of the ancient pampas. ..."
5. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1888)
"And as the artisan makes the icepick according to his conception of the nature
of weaving, but the weaver must be the final judge of his success; ..."
6. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1905)
"... tapering and without function, or fitted to receive the hook of a throwing
stick, or notched for a bowstring, or having an icepick fastened to it. ..."
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