verb
- past tense of pickax; broke up or dug with a pickax
Examples
- The workers pickaxed through the frozen ground.
- He pickaxed the concrete to remove the old foundation.
- The miners pickaxed their way through solid rock.
- She pickaxed the hard clay soil in her garden.
- The crew pickaxed the ice-covered pavement.
- They pickaxed holes for the fence posts.