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pickaxe

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

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pick=axe

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun pickaxe has 1 sense

pickaxe(n = noun.artifact) pick, pickax - a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends; "they used picks and sledges to break the rocks"

is a kind of edge tool

has particulars: mattock

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CIDE DICTIONARY

pickaxe, n. [A corruption of OE. pikois, pikeis, F. picois, fr. pic. See Pick, n.].

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]

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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.

Etymology

ME pikois f. OF picois, rel. to PIKE(2): assim. to AXE

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