enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Pickaxe - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickaxe

   A pickaxe, pick-axe, or pick is a generally T-shaped hand tool used for prying. Its head is typically metal, attached perpendicularly to a longer handle, traditionally made of wood, occasionally metal, and increasingly fiberglass. A standard pickaxe, similar to a "pick mattock", has a pointed end on one side of its head and a broad flat "axe ...

3. Mattock - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattock

   Pickaxe. A mattock (/ ˈmætək /) is a hand tool used for digging, prying, and chopping. Similar to the pickaxe, it has a long handle and a stout head which combines either a vertical axe blade with a horizontal adze (cutter mattock), or a pick and an adze (pick mattock). A cutter mattock is similar to a Pulaski used in fighting fires.

4. Dolabra - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolabra

   The dolabra[1] is a versatile axe used by the people of Italy since ancient times. The dolabra could serve as a pickaxe used by miners and excavators, a priest's implement for ritual religious slaughtering of animals and as an entrenching tool (mattock) used in Roman infantry tactics. In the 1st century CE, at the Siege of Augustodunum ...

5. Karla Faye Tucker - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Faye_Tucker

   Karla Faye Tucker. Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]

6. Axe - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe

   Double- and single-bit felling axes. A collection of bronze socketed axe blades from the Bronze Age found in Germany. This was the prime tool of the period, and also seems to have been used as a store of value. An axe (/ æks /; sometimes spelled ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for millennia ...

7. Inside South Africa's 'ruthless' gang-controlled gold mines

   www.aol.com/news/inside-south-africas-ruthless...

   Under the 24-hour protection of the gang, Ndumiso said he used dynamite for rock-blasting and rudimentary tools such as a pick axe, spade and chisel to find gold.