13 Verbs to Use for the Word pickaxe

"Bring the pickaxe, Hayle, and we'll soon see what is underneath this precious stone.

We used to break into the old shafts and adits which they had made, and find old stags'-horn pickaxes, that crumbled to pieces when we brought them to grass; and they say, that if a man will listen, sir, of a still night, about those old shafts, he may hear the ghosts of them at working, knocking, and picking, as clear as if there was a man at work in the next level.

One Wednesday afternoon, instead of going to Hector, whom he had told not to expect him, he got a pickaxe and spade, and proceeded to dig in the trodden heap.

Down went mattock and spade, pickaxe and shovel, and just at that moment the lights at the convent windows burst forth, and the cock, mistaking the blaze for daybreak, began to crow most lustily.

Hear, hear the pickaxes at work; an army is coming to our rescue, father; the God you doubted sends them, and some hero leads them.

Shortly afterwards the church-door was opened by the sexton, who kept his pickaxe and mattock in a corner of the belfry, and Frantz remembering that as yet he had not entered the church, followed him in, and was struck with the appearance of many portraits which hung round the walls.

So he left his pickaxe with one point fast between two stones, and ran to the shop.

When a fox was marked to ground the church bell was rung as a signal, summoning every man who owned a pickaxe, a gun, or a terrier dog, to lend a hand in destroying him.

Those who had no fire-arms have seized their pickaxes or pieces of their broken ploughs!

They formed a cordon, shouldered their pickaxes, and swore they would not let the Duke pass till he said "God save the Queen."

According to some, the name Fas, which signifies in Arabia a pickaxe, was given to it because one was found in digging its foundations.

"Not so," replied Chowles, snatching up a pickaxe, "if I cannot unlock the door, I can break it open.

" The man ventured no further remonstrance; he took off his jacket, and struck his pickaxe into the hard, dry soil near the point where the cane rested.

13 Verbs to Use for the Word  pickaxe