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- verb Present participle of
pickax .
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Examples
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I dug out a man's ruined house, pickaxing through rubble for an hour to finally find a single tin box that survived underneath the mud and collapsed brick.
Josh Schrei: The Ladakh Cloudburst: An Eyewitness Account 2010
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(Aug. 27) an ordinance for removing out of churches all “superstitious images, crucifixes, altars,” &c.; the effect of which for the next few months was a more or less rough visitation of pickaxing, chipping, and chiselling in all the parish-churches within the Parliament's bounds that had not already been Puritanized by private effort.
The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859
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I, for one, don’t want a 55th Century Heinrich Schliemann pickaxing his way into Oakland 6 and saying “Ja, dieser Verfasser hat denn ein Humpenhund, ja wohl, wuff wuff!!! “
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I, for one, don’t want a 55th Century Heinrich Schliemann pickaxing his way into Oakland 6 and saying “Ja, dieser Verfasser hat denn ein Humpenhund, ja wohl, wuff wuff!!! “
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a more or less rough visitation of pickaxing, chipping, and chiselling in all the parish-churches within the Parliament's bounds that had not already been Puritanized by private effort.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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