A pickaxe is a heavy tool for breaking hard ground, rock, or ice. Picture a long handle and, at the top, a curved iron bar: a sharp point on each end, or a point on one side and a blade on the other. You lift it and bring it down.

A pickaxe十字鎬 is a heavy tool for breaking hard ground, rock, or ice是一種用來鑿開硬地、岩石或冰的重型工具。Picture想像一下 a long handle一根長柄 and, at the top頂端裝著 a curved iron bar一根彎曲的鐵條：a sharp point on each end兩端都是尖的，or a point on one side and a blade on the other或是一端是尖的、另一端是扁平的刃。You lift it你把它舉起來 and bring it down再用力揮下去。

Miners, road workers, and people digging frozen earth use it. American spelling often writes pickax; it is the same tool.

Miners, road workers, and people digging frozen earth礦工、道路工人，還有挖凍土的人 use it都會用它。American spelling美式拼法 often writes pickax常常寫成pickax；it is the same tool但指的是同一種工具。

There is a smaller cousin just called a pick. You can also use pickaxe as a verb — to break the ground with one — but the home meaning is the tool itself.

There is有 a smaller cousin一種較小的近親 just called a pick就叫做pick。You can also use pickaxe as a verbpickaxe也可以當動詞用 — to break the ground with one —意思是用它來鑿地，but the home meaning is the tool itself但它主要的意思還是這項工具本身。

Though actually, the word looks like pick plus axe, and that is how English speakers reshaped it, because the tool feels like both. That is a folk story that stuck, not the older birth of the word.

Though actually不過其實，the word looks like pick plus axe這個字看起來像是pick加上axe組成的，and that is how English speakers reshaped it英語使用者也的確是這樣重新塑造這個字的，because the tool feels like both因為這項工具讓人覺得它兼具兩者的特性。That這 is a folk story that stuck是一個流傳下來的通俗說法，not the older birth of the word而不是這個字更早以前真正的來源。