2. Verb. (third-person singular of pickax) ¹
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Definition of Pickaxes
1. pickaxe [v] - See also: pickaxe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickaxes
Literary usage of Pickaxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Léopold Delisle, Guizot (François) (1854)
"hammers and pickaxes and other iron tools, and with the fragments laid the base
of a causeway along the river ..."
2. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1874)
"... with mast, sails, and oars, three spars for a roof, a door, and a glazed
window ; a wheel-barrow, two spades and a shovel, two pickaxes, a saw, ..."
3. Farm Drainage: The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with by Henry Flagg French (1859)
"Narrow Spades.—English Bottoming Tools.—Pipe- layer.—Pipe-laying
Illustrated.—pickaxes.—Drain Gauge.—Drain Plows, and Ditch-Diggers. — Fowler's
Drain Plow. ..."
4. Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Nottingham (England) (1885)
"... knives, iroke and entered the house and enclosure of the said plaintiff, and
lug up his soil and land with the said plaintiff's spades and pickaxes, ..."
5. Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Nottingham (England) (1885)
"... knives, broke and entered the house and enclosure of the said plaintiff, and
5 dug up his soil and land with the said plaintiff's spades and pickaxes, ..."
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