pickaxe , also: pickax AmE , also: pick **

It is often used where space would not allow the use of a pickaxe.

On this day for several hours I used my pickaxe vigorously.

He took a pickaxe and climbed to the top of the hill.

They first go outside to pick things in their garden (using pickaxes).

The men used shovels, pickaxes, anything they had their hands on.

There will be time for that when I have decided whether she has a pen in her hand or a pickaxe.

"I wish we were at the first stroke of the pickaxe," said the president.

It looks like some kids tried to make a pickaxe out of old spacecraft models.

I somehow don't see the King here with a pickaxe in his hand.

Nothing could be more dangerous than to begin to work with pickaxes in that particular part of the globe.

Then there was the sound of a shovel and pickaxe striking together.

Why should they give up commerce and peck away at the earth with pickaxes?

The loading bar tells the player how long until the next pickaxe will be used.

So he left his pickaxe with one point fast between two stones, and ran to the shop.

I found a pickaxe on a near-by truck, and started work.

This was done by a number of means, including chipping at the buildings with pickaxes.

Suddenly Billy appears inside the truck and attacks him with a pickaxe.

It can also be used as a pickaxe for breaking up rocks and clay.

The arms show a gold-colored pickaxe on a red background.

Then he took the pickaxe and began to dig Rusty's grave.

And his wife engagement in the country valise, voice like a pickaxe.

The prospectors would often break into the bank using a pickaxe and hammer.

Two youths produced a spade and a pickaxe which they had brought with them.

There was open insolence in the tone of the one who still held the pickaxe.

At worst, a blow or two from the pickaxe would hasten the action.