ice axe

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ice axe

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Alternative forms

• ice ax

Noun

ice axe (plural ice axes)

1. An axe used by mountaineers to cut footholds in the ice.

   Meronyms: adze, carabiner, ferrule, leash, pick, spike

Translations

axe used by mountaineers to cut footholds in the ice

Arabic: فَأْس اَلثَّلْج (faʔs aṯ-ṯalj) Belarusian: ледасек m (ljedasjek) Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: piolet m Chinese: Mandarin: 冰鎬 / 冰镐 (bīnggǎo) Czech: cepín m Finnish: jäähakku French: piolet (fr) m Georgian: წერაყინი (ka) (c̣eraq̇ini) German: Eispickel (de) m Irish: piocóid oighir f Italian: piccozza (it) f Polish: czekan (pl) m Russian: ледору́б (ru) m (ledorúb) Slovak: cepín (sk) m Spanish: piolet (es) m Turkish: buz kazması Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• ice pick

Further reading

• “ice axe”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “ice axe” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “ice ax”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.