pickaxe

An artist in New Mexico has spent decades chiseling out fantastical caves from the mountains, one pickaxe swing at a time.

She was coming along in the dull glow of the dying fire, the pickaxe over her shoulder.

Curdie drew his pickaxe carefully away, and as he did so, spied one of her feet, projecting from under the skins.

Over his shoulder he carries a pickaxe as the representative implement of husbandry with one or two wheaten cakes tied to it.