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pickaxe
CIDE DICTIONARY
A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pickaxe, n. & v. (US pickax)
--n. = PICK(2) n. 1.
--v.
1 tr. break (the ground etc.) with a pickaxe.
2 intr. work with a pickaxe.
--n. = PICK(2) n. 1.
--v.
1 tr. break (the ground etc.) with a pickaxe.
2 intr. work with a pickaxe.
Etymology
ME pikois f. OF picois, rel. to PIKE(2): assim. to AXE
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