Ice-ax definition

A pickax having a sharp point or spike at the bottom of the handle, used by mountaineers for climbing on ice.
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An axlike mountain-climbing tool having a pick and an adz at opposite ends of the head, and a spike at the bottom of the handle.
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Alternative spelling of ice axe.
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Noun

Singular:
ice-ax
Plural:
ice-axes

Ice-ax Sentence Examples

  • But his cry came an instant too late as Shipton plummeted past him, his ice ax swinging in a rip across Dean's calf as he plummeted backward into space, and down to the rocks and churning river below.

  • He swung his ice ax into the wall in front of him, dug in the toes of his crampons and began to ascend toward Dean.

  • Penny said, glaring at the officer as she tapped the handle of a sinister looking ice ax.

  • Shipton continued to chop, as if deciding this and not a direct blow from the ice ax was a far better way to remove this annoying impediment to his foolproof plan.

  • The leg wound from Shipton's flailing ice ax had been an eight-stitcher of no permanent consequence but the clump of frozen mountain Dean caught on the head kept him fuzzy and blurred his vision for a day and a half, necessitating the stay.

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