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At one point, Joe slings it over his shoulder, like the Seven Dwarfs toting their pickaxes on the way back from the mine.
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Often, winners are victorious not with bullets but with pickaxes—toppling towers to introduce their foes above to aggressive fall damage below.
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All players carry a pickax to chop down trees or other objects for building materials to create their own forts.
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The charges include allegations that a pickax and a knife were used as deadly weapons.
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Chunks from the 143-ton fatberg found in London’s aging sewer system went on display at the Museum of London Friday, retelling the story of how sewer workers tackled a massive blob of waste — using jet hoses, pickaxes, spades and shovels.
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Hearing their cries as the cloud of dust dispersed, neighbors and nearby workers rushed in with pickaxes, shovels and ladders and rescued them all from the rubble.
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When the ground stopped shaking, people called for help using loudspeakers and residents of nearby communities quickly arrived in Atzala with shovels, pickaxes and chains to haul away rubble.
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When the ground stopped shaking, people called for help using loudspeakers and residents of nearby communities quickly arrived in Atzala with shovels, pickaxes and chains to haul away rubble.
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Origin and Etymology of pickax
Middle English pecaxe, alteration of pikois, from Anglo-French picois, from pic pick, from Latin picus woodpecker — more at pie
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