pickman

One who excavates

A pickman is a worker who uses a pick—a miner or laborer who breaks rock or earth with a pickaxe.

The term appears in historical contexts describing mining operations or excavation work: The pickmen worked in shifts, chipping away at the coal face.

In H.P.

Lovecraft's fiction, "Pickman" is a character name that has become associated with macabre artistry.

artistic

painter

One who applies pigment

brushstrokes · studio · easel · technique · realism · exhibition · composition · masterpiece · model · subject

Lovecraftian

ghoul

Undead flesh-eating demon

tunnel · changeling · canvas · painting · realism · cellar · revelation · photograph · artist · transformation

ghoulish

ghoul

Undead flesh-eating demon

  • cryptSubterranean burial vault
  • tombUnderground chamber for remains
  • graveyardPlot for interring the dead

carrion · charnel · corpse · feeding · underground · tunnel · transformation · changeling · nocturnal · burrow

Opposites
tool type

pickmanshoveler

One who uses a spade

shovelman · mucker · loader · hauler · carter

Family

pickmen

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