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Definition of pickaxe in English: pickaxe(US pickax) noun ˈpɪkaksˈpɪkæks another term for pick (sense 1) Example sentencesExamples - Weapons recovered include a pickaxe, a handaxe, two hammers, a spade, eight baseball bats, a cricket bat, six long-blade knives and an assortment of small knives.
- He believes that a 17-year-old youth was paid to smash the windows of three of his vehicles with pickaxes and hammers.
- The pickaxe Stephen used was stamped with the name of the local council for security reasons.
- Besides drink and foodstuffs the pack trains brought in the pickaxes, shovels and other ironware that the miners required when sinking shafts to reach bedrock.
- Cranes and bulldozers were brought in to clear the streets while 18 teams of rescue workers dug with pickaxes and shovels.
- Then our youngest officer managed to stretch out his arm and use a pickaxe to move the stone the dog was lodged behind.
- Items on the list include skip hire, digger, rotavator, topsoil, compost, bark, spades, forks, shovels, trowels, pickaxes, watering cans, trees, flowers, shrubs and vegetables.
- The following Saturday I arrived alone, armed with a pickaxe, spade and a selection pack of buffet pork pies.
- She also appeared before magistrates for brandishing a pickaxe during an argument with her boyfriend.
- A neighbourhood menace who threatened police with a pickaxe could soon be free again instead of serving the two-year jail sentence his crime merited, a court heard.
- Officers found a pickaxe, shovel without a handle and crowbar.
- They dig through the debris by hand or with pickaxes and shovels, in hopes of finding anyone alive.
- Construction projects in Kenya can be long and gruelling: foundations are dug with pickaxes and even cement must mixed by hand.
- A soldier who needed emergency surgery after a pickaxe was lodged in his skull has taken his first steps since the alleged attack.
- One of the most seriously injured was felled by a pickaxe.
- He carries a pickaxe in his left hand and holds a lighted torch aloft in his right.
- Only belatedly was it discovered that a drain in a workhouse near the well had been accidentally ruptured by a pickaxe.
- It took six hours for his men to row out there and attack the rocks with pickaxes and another six to row back.
- He thought it was a stick or the handle of a pickaxe.
- In thinner coal seams miners would have to hack out coal with a pickaxe while lying on their sides.
verb ˈpɪkaksˈpɪkæks [with object]Break or strike with a pickaxe. Example sentencesExamples - In the midst of digging a ditch for a new fence line one summer, he pickaxed into a massive tangle of hibernating snakes.
- Exposed to the boiling sun of the tropic region, he pickaxed and carried earth on a pole for 7 years, not having proper rests.
- He pickaxed a deep hole right in front of the statue. Then he buried the stone.
Origin Middle English pikoys, from Old French picois; related to pike2. The change in the ending was due to association with axe. Definition of pickax in US English: pickax(also pickaxe) nounˈpɪkæksˈpikaks another term for pick (sense 1) Example sentencesExamples - A soldier who needed emergency surgery after a pickaxe was lodged in his skull has taken his first steps since the alleged attack.
- Items on the list include skip hire, digger, rotavator, topsoil, compost, bark, spades, forks, shovels, trowels, pickaxes, watering cans, trees, flowers, shrubs and vegetables.
- In thinner coal seams miners would have to hack out coal with a pickaxe while lying on their sides.
- A neighbourhood menace who threatened police with a pickaxe could soon be free again instead of serving the two-year jail sentence his crime merited, a court heard.
- It took six hours for his men to row out there and attack the rocks with pickaxes and another six to row back.
- He thought it was a stick or the handle of a pickaxe.
- He believes that a 17-year-old youth was paid to smash the windows of three of his vehicles with pickaxes and hammers.
- The pickaxe Stephen used was stamped with the name of the local council for security reasons.
- The following Saturday I arrived alone, armed with a pickaxe, spade and a selection pack of buffet pork pies.
- Weapons recovered include a pickaxe, a handaxe, two hammers, a spade, eight baseball bats, a cricket bat, six long-blade knives and an assortment of small knives.
- He carries a pickaxe in his left hand and holds a lighted torch aloft in his right.
- One of the most seriously injured was felled by a pickaxe.
- Only belatedly was it discovered that a drain in a workhouse near the well had been accidentally ruptured by a pickaxe.
- She also appeared before magistrates for brandishing a pickaxe during an argument with her boyfriend.
- Besides drink and foodstuffs the pack trains brought in the pickaxes, shovels and other ironware that the miners required when sinking shafts to reach bedrock.
- Officers found a pickaxe, shovel without a handle and crowbar.
- They dig through the debris by hand or with pickaxes and shovels, in hopes of finding anyone alive.
- Then our youngest officer managed to stretch out his arm and use a pickaxe to move the stone the dog was lodged behind.
- Construction projects in Kenya can be long and gruelling: foundations are dug with pickaxes and even cement must mixed by hand.
- Cranes and bulldozers were brought in to clear the streets while 18 teams of rescue workers dug with pickaxes and shovels.
verbˈpɪkæksˈpikaks [with object]Break or strike with a pickax. Example sentencesExamples - In the midst of digging a ditch for a new fence line one summer, he pickaxed into a massive tangle of hibernating snakes.
- He pickaxed a deep hole right in front of the statue. Then he buried the stone.
- Exposed to the boiling sun of the tropic region, he pickaxed and carried earth on a pole for 7 years, not having proper rests.
Origin Middle English pikoys, from Old French picois; related to pike. The change in the ending was due to association with ax. |