0 a tool for breaking hard surfaces, with a long wooden handle and a curved metal bar with a sharp point --
1 a tool with a long wooden handle fitted into the middle of a curved metal bar with a sharp point --
The prospectors would often break into the bank using a pickax and hammer.
But he gave the example of some people armed with pickaxes and committing some sort of robbery.
But times have changed; we no longer need thousands of men with wheelbarrows and pickaxes to build new roads or make road improvements.
We shall begin inviting the little men with pickaxes to start work early in 1983.
Now he has to fight him with pickaxes and shovels.
