pickaxe

See also: pick-axe

English

a pickaxe

From Old French picois, later alteration due to folk etymology association with pick and axe.

pickaxe (plural pickaxes)

A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.

heavy iron tool

Aragonese: pica f
Armenian: քլունգ (hy) (kʿlung), բրիչ (hy) (bričʿ)
Basque: pikotx
Bavarian: Grompm, Spitzhock, Picki
Belarusian: кірка f (kirka)
Bulgarian: кирка (bg) f (kirka)
Catalan: pic (ca) m, piqueta
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鶴嘴鋤 (zh), 鹤嘴锄 (zh) (háozuǐchú, hèzuǐchú), 鶴嘴鎬 (zh), 鹤嘴镐 (zh) (háozuǐgǎo, hèzuǐgǎo), 鎬頭 (zh), 镐头 (zh) (gǎotou)
Czech: krumpáč (cs) m
Dutch: pikhouweel (nl) n, pikaks f
Esperanto: pikfosilo, pioĉo
Estonian: kirka
Finnish: hakku (fi)
French: pioche (fr) f
Galician: pico (gl) m
Georgian: წერაქვი (ka) (c̣erakvi)
German: Spitzhacke (de) f, Pickel (de) m
Greek: αξίνα (el) f (axína)
Hausa: digā̀ f
Hungarian: csákány (hu)
Ido: piocho (io)
Italian: piccone (it) m
Japanese: つるはし (ja) (tsuruhashi), 鶴嘴 (つるはし, tsuruhashi)

Latin: scudicia f
Latvian: cērte f, kaplis (lv) m (dialectism)
Luxembourgish: piosch f
Macedonian: копач m (kópač), трнокоп m (t'rnokop), казма f (kázma), крамп m (kramp)
Mazanderani: کالنگ‎‎
Persian: کلنگ‎‎ (fa) (kolang)
Polish: kilof (pl) m, oskard (pl) m, czekan (pl) m
Portuguese: picareta (pt) f
Romanian: târnăcop (ro) n
Russian: кирка́ (ru) f (kirká), моты́га (ru) f (motýga), кайло́ (ru) n (kajló)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: крамп m, будак m, пијук m, наџак m

Roman: kramp (sh) m, budak (sh) m, pijuk (sh) m, nadžak (sh) m
Slovak: krompáč m
Slovene: kramp (sl) m
Spanish: pico (es) m
Swedish: korp (sv) c, korphacka c
Tagalog: patik
Thai: อีเต้อ (ii-dtə̂ə)
Turkish: kazma (tr)
Ukrainian: кайло́ (uk) n (kajló), кирка́ f (kyrká)
Venetian: pich (vec) m, pico m
Veps: kokteine

pickaxe (third-person singular simple present pickaxes, present participle pickaxing, simple past and past participle pickaxed)

to use a pickaxe

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