Rock-breaking tools

Usage examples of pickaxes.

About ten men mounted the sides of the Nautilus, armed with pickaxes to break the ice around the vessel, which was soon free.

At length, after many trials and much fatigue, on the 25th of April several bars of iron were forged, and transformed into tools, crowbars, pincers, pickaxes, spades, etc.

Nothing could be more dangerous than to begin to work with pickaxes in that particular part of the globe.

Then on further examination, I found ladders, cords, pickaxes, crowbars, and shovels, all scattered about on the shore.

The men were forced to use pickaxes to cut through the blockage, and in some sections only a skilled eye could distinguish between the hardened fill and the rock wall.

One of the pickaxes lay on the floor where Ali or Yussuf had dropped it as they fled.

And I want five pickaxes for each wall, equally spaced, where folk can get at them.

If another killing device attacked, they would be needed, even with the metal nets and pickaxes spaced at regular intervals on the wall, against just that event.

Yes, her people trained now with the nets and the pickaxes, getting faster at tossing the nets over those who played the role of the device, but Kel heard the refugees' whispers.

Civilian workers placing stones on the height above the boulders shot the enemy off their mounts with arrows, then finished them with pickaxes, staves and even the rocks they carried.

Haven was forced to rely on metal and hemp nets, pickaxes and local hedgewitch.

At a second checkpoint, the companions were each handed short-handled pickaxes and mesh bags for carrying ore.

The sound of pickaxes rang from the cellar below, and occasional voices of workmen.

The camp could supply many of its own needs—lumber, coal, meat, some herbs and greens—but they needed flour, fabric, finished metal goods like pickaxes, spices, and all the little incidentals that made living more than just drudgery.