Pickaxe
noun
A hand tool with a hard head attached perpendicular to the handle, used for breaking up hard surfaces.
He used a pickaxe to break up the concrete.
Often appears as...
- swing a pickaxe
- break with a pickaxe
noun
A hand tool with a hard head attached perpendicular to the handle, used for breaking up hard surfaces.
He used a pickaxe to break up the concrete.
Often appears as...
- swing a pickaxe
- break with a pickaxe
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Tool Context
The word 'pickaxe' is often used in the context of construction, mining or archaeology.
Archaeologists carefully wielded pickaxes to uncover ancient artifacts.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Effort
Using a pickaxe usually implies heavy physical work and breaking things apart.
To lay the new pipeline, we need to pickaxe through this rocky ground.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Imagery
A pickaxe can invoke images of gold miners or medieval workers in learners' minds.
In the 1800s, gold miners rushed west with pickaxes over their shoulders.
Pro Tip 1/3Tool Context
The word 'pickaxe' is often used in the context of construction, mining or archaeology.
Archaeologists carefully wielded pickaxes to uncover ancient artifacts.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Effort
Using a pickaxe usually implies heavy physical work and breaking things apart.
To lay the new pipeline, we need to pickaxe through this rocky ground.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Imagery
A pickaxe can invoke images of gold miners or medieval workers in learners' minds.
In the 1800s, gold miners rushed west with pickaxes over their shoulders.
Pro Tip 1/3Tool Context
The word 'pickaxe' is often used in the context of construction, mining or archaeology.
Archaeologists carefully wielded pickaxes to uncover ancient artifacts.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Effort
Using a pickaxe usually implies heavy physical work and breaking things apart.
To lay the new pipeline, we need to pickaxe through this rocky ground.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Imagery
A pickaxe can invoke images of gold miners or medieval workers in learners' minds.
In the 1800s, gold miners rushed west with pickaxes over their shoulders.
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Video examples
Deborah Gordon: The...
And when we dig up nests we find they're about as deep as the colony is wide, so about a meter deep for the big old nests. And then there's another long tunnel and a chamber, where we often find the queen, after eight hours of hacking away at the rock with pickaxes.
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A day in the life of a...
And that’s not counting his backpack, or sarcina, which contains food and all the tools he needs to help build the camp – spade, saw, pickaxe, and basket.
Video examples
Deborah Gordon: The...
And when we dig up nests we find they're about as deep as the colony is wide, so about a meter deep for the big old nests. And then there's another long tunnel and a chamber, where we often find the queen, after eight hours of hacking away at the rock with pickaxes.
Video examples
A day in the life of a...
And that’s not counting his backpack, or sarcina, which contains food and all the tools he needs to help build the camp – spade, saw, pickaxe, and basket.
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Quote examples
Shirley Ballas
English Dancer
For years Corky was what I call a jokester. He'd tease me with things like, 'You've got breasts like two currants on a breadboard' or 'You've got a sunken chest like a pirate's something or other.' He didn't like my teeth until I got braces at 25. It's like a little pickaxe that goes, chip, chip, chip, until, in the end, you think you are ugly.
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Benjamin Percy
American Novelist
Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.
Quote examples
Shirley Ballas
English Dancer
For years Corky was what I call a jokester. He'd tease me with things like, 'You've got breasts like two currants on a breadboard' or 'You've got a sunken chest like a pirate's something or other.' He didn't like my teeth until I got braces at 25. It's like a little pickaxe that goes, chip, chip, chip, until, in the end, you think you are ugly.
Quote examples
Benjamin Percy
American Novelist
Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.
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