Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A pointed awl for chipping or breaking ice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small hand-tool, shaped like an awl, used for breaking ice.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of icepick.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces.
WordNet 3.0
- n. pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice
- n. pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice
Examples
“To ensure that no trickery was potentially involved, I purchased a metal ice pick from a local Tucson department store and kept it in my possession until it was time for Dr. Hall to skewer himself.”
“She approached him from the back, raising the ice pick in the air—”
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“I can confirm that my ice pick was indeed used by Dr. Hall during this experiment.”
“Throwing the ice pick in the knapsack, he threw the whole thing on his back and his leg over the saddle of the ATV, a thing built by Honda called a Foreman.”
“Dr. Hall pushed and pushed for approximately a minute before the ice pick finally passed through his cheek.”
“I was in the self-arrest position, but my torso slipped below the axe, both my feet skidded onto the rock slab, and my weight fell on the ice pick too abruptly.”
“We later performed analyses of three five-minute periods of the EEGs: the first five minutes of the meditation and prayer, the last five minutes of the meditation and prayer, and the five minutes when the ice pick was in his cheek.”
“An ice pick had been driven right up Gino Giametti's nose.”
“His eyes were staring into space; his mouth was gaping; and as the body was totally naked, Vera could see the handle of the ice pick sticking out of his chest—”
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Hazardous art materials
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Finer Points
Objects like needles and spines whose tips are drawn to a fine point.
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Christmas Pageant Chapter Six
Vocabulary for Chapter Six of the Best Christmas Pageant Ever
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Rectal Foreign Bodies
I sense (perhaps wrongly) an enormous pent-up demand for this list.
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