pick-axe

See also: pickaxe

English

Noun

pick-axe (plural pick-axes)

1. Alternative spelling of pickaxe.
   • 1889 December, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “[Allan’s Wife] The Marble Kraals”, in Allan’s Wife and Other Tales, London: Spencer Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 142:

     By the way, the only relic of those builders that I ever saw was a highly finished bronze pick-axe which Stella found one day in the quarry.