pick-axe

A form of pickaxe — A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.

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Meanings

nounpick-axe (plural pick-axes)

plural pick-axes

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of pickaxe.

    By the way, the only relic of those builders that I ever saw was a highly finished bronze pick-axe which Stella found one day in the quarry.

    1889 December, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “[Allan’s Wife] The Marble Kraals”, in Allan’s Wife and Other Tales, London: Spencer Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 142
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Chicago

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