What is "pickaxed"

Usage examples of "pickaxed".

All around this sea lake, about two rat-pikes above the water, went the rather narrow rock road, looking in part natural, in part chiseled and pickaxed, on which he now stood.

He pickaxed holes through the layers of thermoglass, then crawled in headfirst, searching the narrow, jagged air pockets for anything of value.

Day and night they chipped and hacked, pickaxed us«l burrowed deeper, xmcovermg whitened bones by the ton while the deranged clergyman rambled about, frothing like a lunatic.

Had the javelin wiggled a handbreadth lower in the air, its point would have split Vibulenus' skull like a pickaxed melon, ending his duties and his life beyond help of the Medic or the gods .

But sometime this evening, probably when Sluggsy was making the cabin inspection you told me about, he had pickaxed a hole in the wall behind your clothes cupboard, leaving only the plaster-board lining to be cut through with a sharp knife.

Day and night they chipped and hacked, pickaxed us«ll burrowed deeper, xmcovermg whitened bones by the ton while the deranged clergyman rambled about, frothing like a lunatic.

After the single shot of the big rifle was fired, he had only a knife and a hatchet and the spiked and pickaxed ice-staff, and Brave.