Definition of PICKAX

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Often there would be forty kids running around the area—washing pottery, sifting buckets, and pounding the earth with hoes and pickaxes. — Rachel Poser, Harper's magazine, "Common Ground," 19 Aug. 2019 Using elongated screwdrivers and pickaxes, Duran and Kjelland excavated the skull. — Eduardo Medina, SFChronicle.com, "UC Merced student finds 65 million-year-old Triceratops skull," 26 July 2019 In recent years, his sidewalk plaque has become a battleground for political debate in Los Angeles, often being spat upon or written on, and in 2016 was bashed with a sledgehammer and later destroyed with a pickax in 2018. — Nardine Saad, latimes.com, "Here’s why Carrie Fisher won’t get Trump’s star on Walk of Fame," 19 June 2019 Last year Clay pleaded no contest to a felony vandalism charge for smashing President Trump’s Walk of Fame star with a pickax. — Washington Post, "Man sentenced for stealing Marilyn Monroe statue in LA," 10 July 2019 Khafra worked with loyalty and tenacity, wielding a rotary hammer, jackhammer and pickax. — Dan Morse, chicagotribune.com, "A millionaire day trader, the secret bunker under his Maryland home and a murder conviction," 1 July 2019 The two characters are working in the caves with pickaxes. — Abbey Maxbauer, refinery29.com, "R29 Binge Club: Netflix's Dark Season 2 Recap," 25 June 2019 Harden is taking a pickax to every traditional idea about how the game should be played. — Ben Cohen, WSJ, "James Harden Is the Outlier of the NBA," 9 Jan. 2019 Late last month, hours after a man destroyed the star with a pickax, a fierce brawl ensued, leaving one person kicked in the head and another bleeding from the face. — Samantha Schmidt, The Seattle Times, "Trump’s Walk of Fame star: The West Hollywood City Council wants it permanently removed," 7 Aug. 2018

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