pickaxes
Rock-breaking implements
Pickaxes is the plural of pickaxe, a heavy tool with a pointed metal head mounted on a wooden handle, used for breaking up hard ground or rock.
The head typically has a pick on one end and a chisel or adze on the other.
The miners swung their pickaxes into the coal seam.
Figuratively, to pickaxe is to chip away at something laboriously.
Metal-bearing rock
- quarryPit for extracting rock
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- shaftNarrow vertical passage
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
excavation · vein · gold · prospector · mineshaft · rock · strike · swing
Two-bladed digging implement
- handlePart for gripping
- headUppermost body part
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- swingSuspended recreational seat
grip · wooden · shaft · spike · chisel · pointed · wedge · sledgehammer
Edge of settlement
- prospectingSearching for mineral wealth
- gold rushMass migration seeking ore
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- forty-ninerGold rush prospector
settler · railway · Klondike · claim · homestead · transcontinental · immigrant · labor
Block-based sandbox game
- craftingSkillful manual creation
- blockSolid mass, or impede
- diamondCrystallized carbon gemstone
- durabilityResistance to wear
enchantment · resource · harvesting · stone · cobblestone · inventory · upgrade · pixel
Deliberate structural destruction
- concreteSolid building mixture
- breakingComing apart suddenly
- asphaltPetroleum-based paving material
- foundationUnderlying support structure
rubble · jackhammer · paving · masonry · trenching · renovation · hardpan · roadwork
ore
Metal-bearing rock
tunnel · excavation · vein · gold · prospector · mineshaft · rock · strike · swing · underground
mattock
Two-bladed digging implement
swing · grip · wooden · shaft · spike · chisel · pointed · wedge · sledgehammer · crowbar
frontier
Edge of settlement
- prospectingSearching for mineral wealth
- gold rushMass migration seeking ore
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
forty-niner · settler · railway · Klondike · claim · homestead · transcontinental · immigrant · labor · navvy
Minecraft
Block-based sandbox game
durability · enchantment · resource · harvesting · stone · cobblestone · inventory · upgrade · pixel · respawn
demolition
Deliberate structural destruction
foundation · rubble · jackhammer · paving · masonry · trenching · renovation · hardpan · roadwork · removal
- mine museummine shafts, ore carts, mining equipment, mining tools, rock drills
- mining historyminers, gold pan, gold mining, silver mining, prospectors
- Gold RushCalifornia Gold Rush, gold miners, gold mining, gold flakes, gold nuggets
- mining museumheadframe, mining equipment, miner's lamp, ore cart, canary cage
- mininggold, mines, gold mines, mine, coal
- game optionssettings, controls, difficulty, graphics, sound
pickaxesscalpels
Thin-bladed medical knives
tweezers · dental picks · precision instruments · surgical tools · needles