pickshaftn.

Brit.

/ˈpɪkʃɑːft/,

/ˈpɪkʃaft/, U.S.

/ˈpɪkˌʃæft/

Forms: see pick n.¹ and shaft n.²

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pick n.¹, shaft n.²

Etymology: < pick n.¹ + shaft n.²

The shaft of a pick.In quot. 1460 apparently as a standard unit of length, used in measuring land.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > pick > handle of pick

pickshaft1460

pick handle1842

1460 Augmentation Office: Misc. Bks. xliii. No.106 (MED) Certam porcionem carbonum subterraneorum in campo de Newfelde prout iacent in longitudine ad mensuram xxx pikshaft et in latitudine ad mensuram octo selionum.

1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 349 Item, giffin to ane hors to bere pykschaftis, spadis, and sic stuf..vs. xjd.

1625 in J. Imrie & J. G. Dunbar Accts. Masters of Wks. (1982) II. 163 Pickschaftis.

1678 Acct.-bk. Fawside Coal & Salt Wks. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue 28 at Pile-, Pyk-, Pick-s(c)haft Pick shafts.

1860 Sci. Amer. 4 Feb. 91/1 Those machines for picking millstones which have the pick shaft fitted in a sliding frame attached at one end only to the bed-piece or stock of the machine.

1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 86 [He was] batted out by the men with their pickshafts.

1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill xii. 422 Bart Hugill left for the store, where, amidst pick-shafts, smelters' ladles, hilted shovels and bags of bray nails, he picked up a self-imposed task of taking stock.

1994 R. G. MacCallum Tongs Ya Bas 50 The ‘Norman Conks’ had come fully armed with their favourite weapon, the pickshaft, and a number of these were hurled with brute force at the vocal ‘Billy’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pickshaft
释义	pickshaftn. Brit. /ˈpɪkʃɑːft/, /ˈpɪkʃaft/, U.S. /ˈpɪkˌʃæft/ Forms: see pick n.¹ and shaft n.² Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pick n.¹, shaft n.² Etymology: < pick n.¹ + shaft n.² The shaft of a pick.In quot. 1460 apparently as a standard unit of length, used in measuring land. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > pick > handle of pick pickshaft1460 pick handle1842 1460 Augmentation Office: Misc. Bks. xliii. No.106 (MED) Certam porcionem carbonum subterraneorum in campo de Newfelde prout iacent in longitudine ad mensuram xxx pikshaft et in latitudine ad mensuram octo selionum. 1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 349 Item, giffin to ane hors to bere pykschaftis, spadis, and sic stuf..vs. xjd. 1625 in J. Imrie & J. G. Dunbar Accts. Masters of Wks. (1982) II. 163 Pickschaftis. 1678 Acct.-bk. Fawside Coal & Salt Wks. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue 28 at Pile-, Pyk-, Pick-s(c)haft Pick shafts. 1860 Sci. Amer. 4 Feb. 91/1 Those machines for picking millstones which have the pick shaft fitted in a sliding frame attached at one end only to the bed-piece or stock of the machine. 1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 86 [He was] batted out by the men with their pickshafts. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill xii. 422 Bart Hugill left for the store, where, amidst pick-shafts, smelters' ladles, hilted shovels and bags of bray nails, he picked up a self-imposed task of taking stock. 1994 R. G. MacCallum Tongs Ya Bas 50 The ‘Norman Conks’ had come fully armed with their favourite weapon, the pickshaft, and a number of these were hurled with brute force at the vocal ‘Billy’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1460
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