(n.) A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has recently been jigsawed together and displayed for only the second time in its history after it was pickaxed from a wall of Keynsham railway station in 1851.
(2) At the bottom of the sandy dunes sit wide turquoise craters, looked over by gritty hills where haphazard tents made from tarpaulins and thatch serve as shelters for the men descending into the hollowed-out pools with pickaxes and buckets.
(3) Mandla Mandela called a press conference in Mvezo village a day after the sheriff of the local court used a pickaxe to force open the gates of his homestead so the bones of Mandela's three late children, including his father, Makgatho Mandela, who died in 2005, could be exhumed.
(4) The vast government compound in Pangkal Pinang is built on a reclaimed mine, and even here men with pickaxes can be seen digging when officials aren't looking.
(5) They are, as the builders of Timbuktu say, “God’s gift to the poor for building.” The only expense involved in collecting the material – which is cut from the ground with pickaxes, rather like peat – is the amount charged by local tip-truck operators and their labourers.
(6) Smoke billowed from vehicles nearby, and men used pickaxes and whatever tools they could find to try to tear down the walls of the mosque.
(7) The Scottish tax adviser said his hands and feet were caned and beaten with a pickaxe handle.
(8) israel jerusalem unrest At one stage the Guardian witnessed a group of masked youths with pickaxes attacking the railway stop.
(9) Under a pounding midday sun, about a dozen men and women watched as an older man plunged a pickaxe into the heavy soil.
(10) Eriu says Amref gave out sanitation kits, which included pickaxes, spades, a wheelbarrow and a hoe.
(11) Angry after being shouted at by Konrad during the exercise, Kenyon responded by plunging a pickaxe into his skull.
(12) If you work slowly, he says, “your characters will take a pickaxe to everything you thought you knew.” Klay’s interest in (and deference to) experiences of the war at odds with his own is very much part of his project.
Wooden
Definition:
(a.) Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
(1) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(2) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
(3) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
(4) I’m staying in a mobile home called a njalla , designed by artist and architect Joar Nango, which sits on wooden skis that allow you to drag it to a spot of your choosing.
(5) 11.21pm GMT Tweets Jeremiah Tittle (@WWWJT) @LengelDavid @Paolo_Bandini @HunterFelt @GdnUSsports remove the wooden beam from your own eye before you remove the speck from the umpires'.
(6) Up to 100 children may have died in the weekend’s catastrophic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a relief agency has said as prosecutors in Sicily arrested the alleged commander of the wooden fishing vessel and a member of his crew.
(7) On buccal tooth surfaces, the cleaning effect of a multitufted nylon brush was superior to that of a wooden toothpick or unwaxed dental floss.
(8) Wooden construction results in low cost and minimizes radiation scatter problems associated with higher density materials.
(9) The teak-coloured wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers in a country where prostitution has been legal since 1942 on the outskirts of the Swiss city.
(10) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
(11) Tourists take the children out, to the zoo or downtown,” said the head of one orphanage of 16 children, a small wooden house built on stilts in flooded fields.
(12) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
(13) The patient acquired this fungus by cutting his chin on a wooden floor.
(14) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(15) However, this method was much less efficient (31% survival of micro-organisms) on site 3 (wooden surface) than methods 2 (7% survival) and 3 (1% survival).
(16) A wooden block is glued to the sound claw and parenteral antibiotics are administered for four to six days.
(17) Kondoli was pushing a makeshift wooden cart with the family's bedding and pots and pans, but it looked as if it was about to fall apart.
(18) Corrective measures: Chagas: Since brick houses have replaced the wooden ones for several years, new infections are unlikely.
(19) Peterson is accused of using a wooden switch to spank his 4-year-old son.
(20) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.