Synonyms of the word

pickaxe

• n. A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.
• v. To use a pickaxe.

pick

• n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
• n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
• n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
• n. A choice; ability to choose.
• n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
• n. (basketball) A screen.
• n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
• n. (American football) An interception.
• n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
• n. (baseball) A pickoff.
• n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
• n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
• n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
• n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
• n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
• n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
• v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
• v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
• v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
• v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
• v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
• v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
• v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
• v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
• v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
• v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
• v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
• v. To steal; to pilfer.
• v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
• v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

pickax

• n. Alternative spelling of pickaxe.
• v. Alternative spelling of pickaxe.