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In the British Army pickaxe handles are or were officially used as guards'batons.
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Razor blades, CS gas and pickaxe handles are not convincing weapons of debate.
From the guardian.co.uk
For example, a block of gold can only be mined by a pickaxe with an iron tip.
From the theepochtimes.com
I wish I'd brought a pickaxe so I could have a go at the walls in the night.
From the couriermail.com.au
On 25 April 1859 the first blow of the pickaxe was given by de Lesseps at Port Said.
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One slip of a pickaxe can disrupt Internet and phone traffic for hours or even days.
From the newscientist.com
The pickaxe and shovel on his headstone meant his family was proud that he was a coal miner.
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Being an experienced digger-up of burdock I went prepared with a pickaxe as well as a spade.
From the guardian.co.uk
Chuck had the pickaxe in his hands and was preparing to take a swing.
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- 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.
- Programming Ruby is a book about the Ruby programming language by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt, authors of The Pragmatic Programmer. In the Ruby community, it is commonly known as "The Pickaxe" because of the pickaxe on the cover. The book has helped Ruby to spread outside Japan.
- To dream of a pickaxe, denotes a relentless enemy is working to overthrow you socially. A broken one, implies disaster to all your interests.
- The pickaxe is also used to dig through walls. It makes a smaller impact on the wall than the hammer, causing fewer tiles to be dug up at a time. This causes the wall to stay strong for longer before collapsing. ...
- The term pickaxe refers to an option to the diffcore routines that help select changes that add or delete a given text string. With the --pickaxe-all option, it can be used to view the full changeset that introduced or removed, say, a particular line of text. See git-diff(1).
