Definition of Ice pick

1. Noun. Pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice.

Exact synonyms: Icepick
Generic synonyms: Pick
Terms within: Point

Definition of Ice pick

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of icepick) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ice Pick

ice luge
ice luges
ice machine
ice maker
ice milk
ice needle
ice nucleation protein
ice nucleus
ice over
ice pack
ice packs
ice palace
ice pellet
ice pellets
ice pick
ice picks
ice plant
ice plants
ice pop
ice pops
ice racing
ice resurfacer
ice rink
ice scooter
ice scooters
ice scour
ice sculpture
ice sheet

Literary usage of Ice pick

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Negligence Reports, Current Series Cited Am. Neg. Rep.: All the by United States (1906)
"An employer ordering an employee in a room in an icehouse to throw an ice pick over a partition that divided the room from another in which other employees ..."

2. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1906)
"The proprietor of an ice house is not liable to one of his workmen for an injury to his foot caused by its being struck by an ice pick negligently thrown ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1919)
"On January 28, 1914, Toomey struck McNeil a blow on the head with an ice pick, and injured him. On the day of this occurrence the boys liad been working ..."

4. Annual Report (1903)
"Under this shelf are driven several nails upon which hang hammers, ice pick and hatchet—a small hole being bored in the handle of each for the purpose. ..."

5. Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893 by Waldemar Christopher Brøgger, Nordahl Rolfsen (1896)
"Oluf, who had no rifle and carried nothing but an ice-pick and a rope, ... He was for doing it a better way—with the ice-pick he managed to get a small floe ..."

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