Crossword-Solution: PICKAXE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pickaxe | n. | A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “PICKAXE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| large pick | 1 answer |
| Root-cutting tool | 1 answer |
| Mining gear | 1 answer |
| Laborer's tool. | 1 answer |
| Hard rock instrument? | 1 answer |
| Concrete-breaking tool | 1 answer |
| Coal-miner's tool | 1 answer |
| Prospecting tool | 2 answers |
| Miner's tool | 3 answers |
| mattock | 3 answers |
| Digger's tool. | 4 answers |
| Prospector's need | 4 answers |
| Prospector's tool | 4 answers |
| Digging tool | 6 answers |
| Ground breaker? | 6 answers |
| Groundbreaking invention | 8 answers |
| BREAKER GROUND | 10 answers |
| DIGGER TOOL | 10 answers |
| extractor | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PICKAXE (5)
Upon a sign from Captain Nemo one of the men advanced; and at some feet from the cross he began to dig a hole with a pickaxe that he took from his belt.
They all scurried away, but soon returned, one after another, each with a pickaxe on his shoulder and a spade in his hand.
This was done so that if a pickaxe was about to come through a wall in that room, all the brass basins would clang together and make a great noise.
Jack took a horn, a shovel, a pickaxe, his armor, and a dark lantern, and one winter’s evening he went to the mount.
Some implements, probably a shovel and pickaxe, lay beside him, and to these he every now and then applied himself as the nature of the ground required.
Quotes with PICKAXE (3)
There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the civilisation, but to become that city, that civilisation, you once took a pickaxe and destroyed what you hated, and what you hated was what you did not understand.
We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniature with a mop; we expect them to help us to grip and dissect that which in ultimate essence is as ungrippable as shadow. Nevertheless there they are; we have got to live with them, and the wise course is to treat them as we do our neighbours, and make the best and not the worst of them.
He thought how easy it would be to write an entire book on Johannesburg violence. The strike leader Pickaxe Mary, after whom Mary Fitzgerald Square was named, who attacked her enemies with a pickaxe handle. The trenches dug into the streets of Fordsburg during the 1922 miners’ strike. The cannons of the government aimed at the poor whites of Vrededorp. The murdered woman in the 1960s whose head was found in the Zoo Lake and whose torso was discovered in a suitcase in Wemmer P…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1957–2023).