Pickaxe
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A pickaxe, pick-axe, or pick is a generally T-shaped hand tool used for digging. Its head is typically metal, attached perpendicularly to a longer handle, traditionally made of wood, occasionally meta
Pickaxe on the ground
Ceremony hammer of a miner VEB Kombinat Senftenberg (GDR) - with honorary uniform
Illustration of pickaxe handles being combined with riot shields
Club (weapon)
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A club is a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon or tool since prehistory. There are several examples of blunt-force trauma caused by clubs in the past, including at the sit
Pickaxe
…of it were incorporated in various battle axes. A pickaxe handle (sometimes called a "pickhandle" or "pick helve") is sometimes used on its own as a club for bludgeoning. In The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, pick handles were used against migrant farmers, and Georgia governor Lester Maddox famously…
An assortment of club weapons from the Wujing Zongyao from left to right: flail, metal bat, double flail, truncheon, mace, barbed mace
A Yuma war club
Small Japanese Tetsubo, an iron club with a leather grip.
Various assorted shillelagh (club).