Definition of "ice pick" [ice pick]

• A pointed awl for chipping or breaking ice. (noun)

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• "Throwing the ice pick in the knapsack, he threw the whole thing on his back and his leg over the saddle of the ATV, a thing built by Honda called a Foreman."
• "I was in the self-arrest position, but my torso slipped below the axe, both my feet skidded onto the rock slab, and my weight fell on the ice pick too abruptly."
• "We later performed analyses of three five-minute periods of the EEGs: the first five minutes of the meditation and prayer, the last five minutes of the meditation and prayer, and the five minutes when the ice pick was in his cheek."