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Mining tool
Answer for the clue "Mining tool ", 6 letters:
pickax
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Word definitions for pickax in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends; "they used picks and sledges to break the rocks" [syn: pick , pickaxe ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of pickaxe English) vb. (alternative spelling of pickaxe English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pickax \Pick"ax`\, Pickaxe \Pick"axe`\ (p[i^]k"[a^]ks`), n. [A corruption of OE. pikois, pikeis, F. picois, fr. pic. See Pick , 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 ...
Usage examples of pickax.
Gentle nighttime showers irrigated the potato fields of Moose County and freshened the peony gardens of Pickax City, the county seat.
It boded well for the sesquicentennial celebration of Pickax City, 400 miles north of everywhere.
The government surveyors assigned to choose a site happened upon a rusty pickax wedged in a tree stump at a point where two trails crossed.
We have quite a number of book collectors in Pickax, and they think the name of the store alludes to shelves full of treasures.
The latter was one of the oddities of Pickax, a city full of oddities.
The main feature will be the antique pickax that has been in a glass case at City Hall.
By contrast, the Pickax City Hall had always been a civic embarrassment: a two-story gray brick building with a flat roof, small naked windows, and an unimpressive entrance door.
Gary was behind the bar last night and heard two customers making plans to steal the historic pickax before the parade!
That evening, Qwilleran phoned Andrew Brodie, Pickax police chief, at home--at an hour when a nightcap would be appropriate.
The families scheduling reunions in Pickax during the summer may have suggested ideas for his twice-weekly column, but his real interest was pure curiosity: He had never been a member of a family.
In Pickax the host families of reunions were exhorted to register their plans and receive help with accommodations, entertainment reservations, and restaurant availabilities.
Of the seven family reunions scheduled for Pickax, Qwilleran chose the Ogilvie-Fugtree gathering.
Ogilvies and the Fugtrees can leave the town of Pickax some useful memento of their visit here.
Chicago who escaped a domineering mother, discovered Pickax and Derek, the most popular bachelor in town.
Tournament of Roses in California, the Tournament of Peonies in Pickax will be no great loss.