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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pickax .
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Examples
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Himmler had had it dredged by several more feet for reasons unclear to the slave laborers who had pickaxed their way through the solid rock on which the tower rested.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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Himmler had had it dredged by several more feet for reasons unclear to the slave laborers who had pickaxed their way through the solid rock on which the tower rested.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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à The story then jumps ahead 10 years to slow down and let us get used to some of these characters before they get pickaxed, as well.
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Pickaxe for Binz because she pickaxed Jewish women to death.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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In the field the previous spring he had accompanied the expedition beyond the "Big Lead" to 84° 29 ', and with the strength of his broad shoulders he had pickaxed the way.
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888
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March 19: We left camp in a haze of bitter cold; the ice conditions about the same as the previous day; high rafters, huge and jagged; and we pickaxed the way continuously.
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888
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As my horse about this time began to show signs of fatigue, and as Lawley's pickaxed most alarmingly, we turned them into some clover to graze, whilst we watched two brigades pass along the road.
Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 Arthur James Lyon Fremantle 1868
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As my horse about this time began to show signs of fatigue, and as Lawley's pickaxed most alarmingly, we turned them into some clover to graze, whilst we watched two brigades pass along the road.
Three Months in the Southern States: April, June, 1863. 1864
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Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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When I was last in Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap.
The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859
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