1. using a pickax to break up hard ground, rock, or other materials
Usage: present participle of pickax

Examples

• The construction crew was pickaxing through the frozen ground.
• He spent the morning pickaxing the rocky soil to plant trees.
• The miners were pickaxing their way through the hard coal seam.
• She was pickaxing the old concrete to remove it from the driveway.
• The archaeologists were carefully pickaxing around the ancient artifacts.
• Workers were pickaxing the ice-covered sidewalk to clear it.