pickaxed
Broke with tool
Pickaxed is the past tense of pickax, meaning to strike, break up, or dig with a pickax—a tool with a pointed metal head on a long handle, used for breaking rock or hard ground.
Workers pickaxed through the frozen earth.
The miners pickaxed their way into the mountainside.
Two-bladed digging implement
- shovelTool for moving earth
- spadeFlat-bladed digging implement
- sledgehammerMassive long-handled mallet
- crowbarMetal prying lever
chisel · wedge · handle · swing · strike · heft · iron · steel
Metal-bearing rock
- veinVessel toward heart
- excavateRemove earth systematically
- quarryPit for extracting rock
- shaftNarrow vertical passage
tunnel · prospector · mineral · gold · silver · coal · copper · gemstone
mattock
Two-bladed digging implement
- shovelTool for moving earth
- spadeFlat-bladed digging implement
- sledgehammerMassive long-handled mallet
crowbar · chisel · wedge · handle · swing · strike · heft · iron · steel · point
ore
Metal-bearing rock
shaft · tunnel · prospector · mineral · gold · silver · coal · copper · gemstone · extraction
carve
Cut to shape
marble · granite · rough-hewn · block · quarried · sculpt · hew · form · chisel · artist
break
Interrupt continuity
chip · fragment · rubble · concrete · masonry · brick · plaster · wall · floor · tear down