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- noun Plural form of
pickaxe . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
pickax .
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Examples
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And your pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning; your smelting-furnace is your own thoughtful soul.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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And your pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning; your smelting-furnace is your own thoughtful soul.
Sesame and Lilies. Lecture I.-Sesame: Of Kings’ Treasuries 1909
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And your pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning; your smelting furnace is your own thoughtful soul.
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A gag order is in effect, but Los Angeles radio station KFI-AM 640 reported that authorities who searched Gardner's Lake Elsinore home seized some clothing and digging tools, such as pickaxes and shovels more than a week after he was arrested in the slaying of Chelsea, according to search-warrant records.
Fore, right! SignOnSanDiego 2010
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A gag order is in effect, but Los Angeles radio station KFI-AM 640 reported that authorities who searched Gardner's Lake Elsinore home seized some clothing and digging tools, such as pickaxes and shovels.
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A battle broke out at the edge of the camp in which protesters used pickaxes to break the paved sidewalk and smash it into baseball-size chunks that they threw at the security forces.
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Other bodies were dug out of the debris by firefighters using pickaxes and chain saws.
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To contractors who refused to pay, the United Hispanic Construction Workers delivered a stark message, sending van-loads of its members wielding baseball bats and pickaxes to New York City construction sites, authorities said.
Extortion Charges Hit Labor Coalition Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011
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I think that too many people have a romantic vision of roads being built by men swinging pickaxes.
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A battle broke out at the edge of the camp in which protesters used pickaxes to break the paved sidewalk and smash it into baseball-size chunks that they threw at the security forces.
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