noun
- a tool with a long handle and a heavy metal head that has a point on one side and a flat blade on the other, used for breaking up hard ground or rock
verb
- to break up or dig with a pickaxe
Examples
- The miners used pickaxes to break through the rocky tunnel wall.
- She swung the pickaxe repeatedly to loosen the frozen soil.
- The construction crew brought pickaxes to demolish the old concrete foundation.
- He pickaxed through the hard clay to plant the fence posts.
- The archaeologists carefully pickaxed around the ancient artifacts.
- Workers pickaxed the ice-covered sidewalk to clear a path.