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The carvings depict bighorn sheep, bisected circles and at one site, a miner swinging a pickax.—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025 At the center of the maelstrom stands Léna Lazare, holding a pickax.—Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 7 Aug. 2024 Investigators later found blood and human tissue in the bed of the truck, as well as on tools in the garage, including hedge trimmers, branch cutters, an ax, a pickax, a baseball bat and a rake.—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2024 The tools shown on the flag — a plow, an anchor, a hammer and pickax — honor the trades: agriculture, mining, manufacturing and navigation.—Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for pickax
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Etymology
Middle English pecaxe, alteration of pikois, from Anglo-French picois, from pic pick, from Latin picus woodpecker — more at pie
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