Should one use a pickaxe or an oar to mine ore?
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Pickaxe
//ˈpɪkˌæks//
Synonyms for "pickaxe" (4 found)
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Translations
120 translations across 67 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- بيك noun (heavy iron tool)
- فاس noun (heavy iron tool)
- فَأْس noun (heavy iron tool)
- مِعْوَل noun (heavy iron tool)
Aragonese
1 entries- pica noun (heavy iron tool)
Armenian
2 entries- բրիչ noun (heavy iron tool)
- քլունգ noun (heavy iron tool)
Basque
1 entries- pikotx noun (heavy iron tool)
Bavarian German
3 entries- Grompm noun (heavy iron tool)
- Picki noun (heavy iron tool)
- Spitzhock noun (heavy iron tool)
Belarusian
1 entries- кірка noun (heavy iron tool)
Bulgarian
1 entries- кирка noun (heavy iron tool)
Catalan
2 entries- pic noun (heavy iron tool)
- piqueta noun (heavy iron tool)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- قوڵِنگ noun (heavy iron tool)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 鎬頭 /镐头 noun (heavy iron tool)
- 鶴嘴鋤 /鹤嘴锄 noun (heavy iron tool)
- 鶴嘴鎬 /鹤嘴镐 noun (heavy iron tool)
Czech
1 entries- krumpáč noun (heavy iron tool)
Danish
1 entries- hakke noun (heavy iron tool)
Dutch
2 entries- pikaks noun (heavy iron tool)
- pikhouweel noun (heavy iron tool)
Esperanto
3 entries- pikfosilo noun (heavy iron tool)
- pioĉo noun (heavy iron tool)
- pioĉi verb (to use a pickaxe)
Estonian
1 entries- kirka noun (heavy iron tool)
Finnish
1 entries- hakku noun (heavy iron tool)
French
2 entries- pioche noun (heavy iron tool)
- piocher verb (to use a pickaxe)
Galician
2 entries- picaraña noun (heavy iron tool)
- pico noun (heavy iron tool)
Georgian
1 entries- წერაქვი noun (heavy iron tool)
German
2 entries- Pickel noun (heavy iron tool)
- Spitzhacke noun (heavy iron tool)
Greek
1 entries- αξίνα noun (heavy iron tool)
Hausa
1 entries- digā̀ noun (heavy iron tool)
Hebrew
1 entries- מַכּוֹשׁ noun (heavy iron tool)
Hindi
1 entries- गैंती noun (heavy iron tool)
Hungarian
1 entries- csákány noun (heavy iron tool)
Hunsrik
1 entries- Pikarett noun (heavy iron tool)
Icelandic
1 entries- haki noun (heavy iron tool)
Ido
1 entries- piocho noun (heavy iron tool)
Indonesian
2 entries- belencong noun (heavy iron tool)
- gancu noun (heavy iron tool)
Irish
1 entries- piocóid noun (heavy iron tool)
Italian
1 entries- piccone noun (heavy iron tool)
Japanese
2 entries- つるはし noun (heavy iron tool)
- 鶴嘴 noun (heavy iron tool)
Latin
3 entries- dolābra noun (heavy iron tool)
- picōsa noun (heavy iron tool)
- pīcca noun (heavy iron tool)
Latvian
2 entries- cērte noun (heavy iron tool)
- kaplis noun (heavy iron tool)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- piosch noun (heavy iron tool)
Macedonian
4 entries- казма noun (heavy iron tool)
- копач noun (heavy iron tool)
- крамп noun (heavy iron tool)
- трнокоп noun (heavy iron tool)
Malayalam
2 entries- കോടാലി noun (heavy iron tool)
- പിക്കാസ് noun (heavy iron tool)
Maltese
2 entries- baqqun noun (heavy iron tool)
- fies noun (heavy iron tool)
Mazanderani
1 entries- کالنگ noun (heavy iron tool)
Māori
1 entries- pika noun (heavy iron tool)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- kuling noun (heavy iron tool)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- hakke noun (heavy iron tool)
Occitan
2 entries- pic noun (heavy iron tool)
- trenca noun (heavy iron tool)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- صاقور noun (heavy iron tool)
- فاس noun (heavy iron tool)
- قازمه noun (heavy iron tool)
- كلنك noun (heavy iron tool)
Persian
1 entries- کلنگ noun (heavy iron tool)
Polish
4 entries- czekan noun (heavy iron tool)
- kilof noun (heavy iron tool)
- oskard noun (heavy iron tool)
- używać kilofa verb (to use a pickaxe)
Portuguese
1 entries- picareta noun (heavy iron tool)
Romanian
1 entries- târnăcop noun (heavy iron tool)
Russian
4 entries- кайло́ noun (heavy iron tool)
- кирка́ noun (heavy iron tool)
- моты́га noun (heavy iron tool)
- рыть verb (to use a pickaxe)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- budak noun (heavy iron tool)
- kramp noun (heavy iron tool)
- nadžak noun (heavy iron tool)
- pijuk noun (heavy iron tool)
Sicilian
2 entries- fesi noun (heavy iron tool)
- picu noun (heavy iron tool)
Slovak
1 entries- krompáč noun (heavy iron tool)
Slovene
1 entries- kramp noun (heavy iron tool)
Southern Kurdish
1 entries- قوڵِنگ noun (heavy iron tool)
Spanish
4 entries- pico noun (heavy iron tool)
- piqueta noun (heavy iron tool)
- sacho noun (heavy iron tool)
- zapapico noun (heavy iron tool)
Swedish
2 entries- korp noun (heavy iron tool)
- korphacka noun (heavy iron tool)
Tagalog
1 entries- patik noun (heavy iron tool)
Tarifit
1 entries- ariyzim noun (heavy iron tool)
Thai
1 entries- อีเต้อ noun (heavy iron tool)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཏོག་ཙེ noun (heavy iron tool)
Turkish
1 entries- kazma noun (heavy iron tool)
Tày
1 entries- bủa noun (heavy iron tool)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ка́йло noun (heavy iron tool)
- ки́рка noun (heavy iron tool)
Venetan
2 entries- pich noun (heavy iron tool)
- pico noun (heavy iron tool)
Veps
1 entries- kokteine noun (heavy iron tool)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cuốc chim noun (heavy iron tool)
- cúp noun (heavy iron tool)
Zulu
1 entries- ipiki noun (heavy iron tool)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Where is the pickaxe?
Source: tatoeba (6794895)
He took into his mind to make me dig a pit for my father, while confiscating me the pickaxe.
Source: tatoeba (8978594)
You can't mine diamonds without an iron pickaxe or better.
Source: tatoeba (10059422)
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