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How to pronounce pickax in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms pick, pickaxe
Type of edge tool
Has types mattock

Examples of pickax

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How often can the evil miner swing his mighty pickax straight toward the camera?
From the latimes.com
He checks the pickax for dirt, scrapes clods off, places it in the wheelbarrow.
From the denverpost.com
The prospectors would often break into the bank using a pickax and hammer.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The statue shows a miner, framed by dark timbers, attacking a coal seam with his pickax.
From the post-gazette.com
Arizonans have used sticky notes, Silly String and even a pickax to sabotage the cameras.
From the dailyherald.com
He got his Labrador retriever and used the pickax to stab and bludgeon the dog to death.
From the sltrib.com
On the other side stands a miner with a pickax, and behind him an anvil and sledge hammer.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He is a pickax-swinging maniac made crazy after being the only survivor of a mining accident.
From the fresnobee.com
A scuffed rusty pickax lies in the corner to split wood for the oven.
From the latimes.com
More examples
  • Pick: 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"
  • A pickaxe (pickax) is a hand tool with a hard head attached perpendicular to the handle.
  • A digging tool with a chisel edge on one end and a point on the other.