pickaxe
A heavy iron tool with a wooden handleA heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.
» Ziri saw pickaxes all around him.
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1 sensesA heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.
He was mining stone using a pickaxe.
Spitzhacke, Pickel
кирка́kirká, моты́гаmotýga, кайло́kajló
ка́йлоkájlo, ки́ркаkýrka
a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
Examples
10 sentencesZiri saw pickaxes all around him.
Do you hear those pickaxe sounds?
Martino struck the meteor with a pickaxe.
I'm holding a pickaxe in my hand.
Boris started hitting the door with his pickaxe.
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English pykeaxe, pecaxe, pyke exe (“pickaxe”), an alteration (due toInherited from Middle English pykeaxe, pecaxe, pyke exe (“pickaxe”), an alteration (due to folk etymology association with pick and axe) of Middle English pikeyse, pikeys, pykois, from Anglo-Norman *pikeis, Old French picois, pecois, from Latin picōsa (“pickaxe”), from picca, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pīk (“sharp point, pike”). Doublet of pique and pike.
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