Editing Pickaxe (section)

==Etymology==
The [[Oxford Dictionary of English]] states that both ''pick'' and ''pickaxe'' have the same meaning, that being a tool with a long handle at right angles to a curved iron or steel bar with a point at one end and a chisel or point at the other, used for breaking up hard ground or rock.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Soanes|first1=Catherine|last2=Stevenson|first2=Angus|title=Oxford Dictionary of English|date=2006|publisher=Oxford Univ. Press|location=Oxford, New York|isbn=978-0-19-861057-1|page=1330|edition=2. ed. (rev.) / ed. by Catherine Soanes ...}}</ref>

The term ''pickaxe'' is a [[folk etymology]] alteration of [[Middle English]] {{lang|enm|picas}} via [[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norman]] {{lang|xno|piceis}}, [[Old French]] {{lang|fro|pocois}}, and directly from [[Medieval Latin]] {{lang|la|picosa}} {{gloss|pick}}, related to Latin {{lang|la|picus}} {{gloss|woodpecker}}.<ref name="Pickaxe Merriam-Webster">{{MerriamWebsterDictionary|Pickax|access-date=2017-03-03}}</ref><ref name="Pickaxe Etymonline">{{OEtymD|pickaxe}}</ref> Though modern picks usually feature a head with both a pointed end and an [[adze]]-like flattened blade on the other end, current spelling is influenced by ''axe'', and ''pickaxe'', ''pick-axe'', or sometimes just ''pick'' cover any and all versions of the tool.