Definitions for pickax

pickax pick·ax

Spelling: [pik-aks]
IPA: /ˈpɪkˌæks/

Pickax is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in pickax (acikpx).

Definitions for pickax

noun

  1. a pick, especially a mattock.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cut or clear away with a pickax.

verb (used without object)

  1. to use a pickax.

Origin of pickax

1275-1325; pick2 + ax; replacing Middle English picois Middle French, Old French; akin to French pic pick

Examples for pickax

They do not care to go back to the track, the pickax and the shovel.

Nidart put the shovel in his wife's hand, and took up the pickax.

"It is far too tough and too big to be destroyed by a pickax or crowbar," I replied.

He was taking a glass of ale at the 'Toad and pickax,' and you might hear him all over the yard.

Instead, there were big wooden shovels, plows, sickles and a pickax.

It just seemed as if it was his own body that suffered from every blow of the pickax.

Jack and Alfonso were supplied with a pickax, a shovel and a basket.

I felt at the time that a man who objects to a few taps on the face with a pickax is overcritical.

Just as the sun was setting, a man came into the gully with a pickax on his shoulder.

After that somebody took a pickax and cracked in my jaw with it.

Word Value for pickax
Scrable

21

Words with friends

23

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