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Definition of Pickaxed
1. pickaxe [v] - See also: pickaxe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickaxed
Literary usage of Pickaxed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1864)
"As my horse about this time began to show signs of fatigue, and as Lawley's
pickaxed most alarmingly, we turned them ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"... pickaxed most alarmingly, we turned them into some clover to graze, whilst we
watched two brigades pass along the road. They are commanded, I think, ..."
3. English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. by John Ashton (1884)
"Napoleon standing on ruins, surrounded by ' Territories pickaxed with
impunity'—Switzerland, Italian Republic, Batavian Republic ; and he is now commencing ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1891)
"... into rough shapes with hammers, rough and smooth pickaxed dressing, and
truthfully sawn faces 2 feet in length. The coast of 1 Published in full in the ..."
5. The Stones of Paris in History and Letters by Benjamin Ellis Martin, Charlotte M. Martin (1906)
"Balzac's Paris—the Paris for which his pen did what Callot and Meryon did for it
with their needles—has been almost entirely pickaxed out of sight and ..."
6. Three Months in the Southern States: April-June, 1863 by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle (1863)
"As my horse about this time began to show signs of fatigue, and as Lawley's
pickaxed most alarmingly, we turned them into some clover to graze, ..."