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Example sentences from the Web for pickaxeAn artist in New Mexico has spent decades chiseling out fantastical caves from the mountains, one pickaxe swing at a time. New Mexico’s Amazing Man-Made Caves|Nina Strochlic|December 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST She was coming along in the dull glow of the dying fire, the pickaxe over her shoulder. Captivity|M. Leonora Eyles Curdie drew his pickaxe carefully away, and as he did so, spied one of her feet, projecting from under the skins. The Princess and the Goblin|George MacDonald Over his shoulder he carries a pickaxe as the representative implement of husbandry with one or two wheaten cakes tied to it. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV|R.V. Russell
I wanted to break up the idol with my pickaxe, but M. de Peyrehorade would not let me. Abb Aubain and Mosaics|Prosper Mrime “I should just like to pickaxe him with my mortar-chipper,” said an old cock-sparrow. Featherland|George Manville Fenn
verbto use a pickaxe on (earth, rocks, etc) Word Origin for pickaxeC15: from earlier pikois (but influenced also by axe), from Old French picois, from pic pick ²; compare also pique 1 Words nearby pickaxepick apart, pick a quarrel, pickaroon, pick at, pickax, pickaxe, Pick cell, picked, picked over, pickeer, Pickens Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |