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Definition of Pickaxe

1. Noun. 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"

Definition of Pickaxe

1. Noun. A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge. ¹

2. Verb. To use a pickaxe. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pickaxe

1. to pickax [v -AXED, -AXING, -AXES] - See also: pickax

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickaxe

Literary usage of Pickaxe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Historic Incidents and Life in India by Caleb Wright, J. A. Brainerd (1863)
"If the pickaxe falls from the hand of the man who bears it, dismay spreads through the gang. The omen is regarded as of the most fearful description ..."

2. A Text-book of Tropical Agriculture by Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls (1906)
"THE pickaxe is a strong, slightly curved bar of iron tipped with steel, ... One end of the pickaxe is usually pointed, and the other end flattened out and ..."

3. Little Folks in Feathers and Fur, and Others in Neither by Olive Thorne Miller, Hildibrand, A. Mesnel, Ecosse, E.P. Dutton (Firm)., J.J. Little & Co (1880)
"THE BIRD WHO CARRIES A pickaxe. Not an iron one—such as men work with—of course, but a neat little bone pickaxe, just fitted to his size, and hard enough to ..."

4. A Pilgrimage in Europe and America Leading to the Discovery of the Sources by Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (1828)
"... and open the ground necessary to his subsistence with his pickaxe; that the cord and bridle signify that he must provide himself with a cow and a horse; ..."

5. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"THE pickaxe By GOUVERNEUR MORRIS ILLUSTRATED BY OT JACKMAN ... crimsons and yellows there flashed like some weapon of the middle ages a brand new pickaxe. ..."

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