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• pickax (US)
• pick-axe

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 pykeaxe, pecaxe, pyke exe (“pickaxe”), an alteration (due to folk etymology association with pick and axe) of 中期英語 pikeyse, pikeys, pykois, from Anglo-Norman *pikeis, Old French picois, pecois, from Latin picōsa (“pickaxe”), from picca, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pīk (“sharp point, pike”). Doublet of pique and pike.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpɪkˌæks/

名詞

pickaxe (plural pickaxes)

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

   He was mining stone using a pickaxe.

派生語

• pickaxer

動詞

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

1. To use a pickaxe.