单词 | pickaxe handle |
释义 | > as lemmaspickaxe handle pickaxe handle n. ΚΠ 1771 in J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation (1792) xiii. 339 The proposed contract..for supplying the company with..shovel and pick-axe handles at five-pence each. 1840 Appendix Jrnl. House of Assembly Upper Canada 1 571 Paid Thomas Black, for seven pick axe handles. 1934 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. Great Brit. & Irel. 64 U29 (caption) A coup-de-poing is seen in place near the end of the pick-axe handle. 2000 T. Carew Jihad! (2001) i. 23 Walking round the barracks clutching a pick-axe handle for protection. < as lemmas |
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