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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- pickaxe
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noun
镐，指鹤嘴锄
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1.
noun
镐，指鹤嘴锄
Collins English-English Dictionary
- pickaxe ['pɪk"æks]
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n
a large pick or mattock
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2.
vb
to use a pickaxe on (earth, rocks, etc)
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vb
[Etymology]
C15: from earlier pikois (but influenced also by
axe ), from Old French picois, from picpick 2; compare alsopique 1
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1.
n
a large pick or mattock
Examples
- 工地上缺人手， 他拿了个镢头就帮忙去了。
- The construction site has a lack of labor, so he took a pickaxe and went there to help. → 镢头
- 第一次亲眼见到坎土曼， 我觉得这种农具和汉族的镐差不太多。
- The first time I saw a mattock of the Uygur nationality, I thought it quite similar to a pickaxe of the Han nationality. → 坎土曼
- 他偷了生产队的铁镐， 遭到了队长的批评。
- He stole the pickaxe from the production team and was therefore criticized by the team leader. → 铁镐
- 镐把
- pickaxe handle → 把
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