pickaxe

Plural: pickaxes

Noun

a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.

Verb

Verb Forms: pickaxed, pickaxing, pickaxes

To strike or break with a pickaxe, a heavy digging tool.
To use a pickaxe.

Examples

He was mining stone using a pickaxe.
She had to PICKAXE her way through the complex rules of Words With Friends.

Origin / Etymology

Inherited from Middle English pykeaxe, pecaxe, pyke exe (“pickaxe”), an alteration (due to folk etymology association with pick and axe) of Middle English 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.

Synonyms

pick, pickax

Scrabble Score: 22

pickaxe: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
pickaxe: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pickaxe: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 24

pickaxe: valid Words With Friends Word