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Meanings of pickaxe in English
Usage of pickaxe in English
1
He was holding a long pickaxe in the piolet en canard position.
2
The pickaxe is looked upon with the utmost veneration by the tribe.
3
You need a pickaxe to keep your place in a Roman queue.
4
Then take hold of this pickaxe, and see how you like it.
5
Diamond having neither pickaxe nor spade, had the more time to think.
6
Fortunately, we have no pickaxe, and can not be tempted to self-slaughter.
7
The adventurer with a pickaxe in Washoe may happen upon like good fortune.
8
His pickaxe stuck in it, and he extricated it with difficulty.
9
The count sent for a pickaxe and Beautrelet attacked the altar.
10
To some rocks the boys were obliged to take the pickaxe and crowbar.
11
Then the hard earth rang with mighty blows of the pickaxe.
12
Despair seized me for an instant; my pickaxe nearly fell from my hands.
13
The water seemed singularly cold, but I soon got warm handling the pickaxe.
14
Occasionally the pickaxe uncovered peat deposits of unsuspected depth and value.
15
Poor truth has had a hard work of it with her little pickaxe.
16
Three thousand pioneers worked night and day with pickaxe and shovel.
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