Definition of pickax
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Los Angeles police in 2016 arrested a man who pleaded no contest to destroying Trump’s star with a sledgehammer and pickax about a week after Trump was elected.
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The company behind the game rakes in over $300 million per month selling skins, pickaxes, and other digital enhancements to help players compete more or simply look cool.
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The men used shovels and pickaxes to dig down through the debris, coughing as their eyes watered and their bodies shrouded in clouds of ash.
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That railway was completed in 1904 by 350 workers with pickaxes, shovels and wheelbarrows.
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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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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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