ice axe

English

An ice axe

Alternative forms

• ice ax

Noun

ice axe (plural ice axes)

1. An axe used by mountaineers to cut footholds in the ice.

   Meronyms: adze, carabiner, ferrule, leash, pick, spike

Translations

axe used by mountaineers to cut footholds in the ice

• Arabic: فَأْس اَلثَّلْج (faʔs aṯ-ṯalj)
• Belarusian: ледасек m (ljedasjek)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: piolet m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰鎬 / 冰镐 (bīnggǎo)

• Czech: cepín m
• Finnish: jäähakku
• French: piolet (fr) m
• Georgian: წერაყინი (ka) (c̣eraq̇ini)
• German: Eispickel (de) m
• Irish: piocóid oighir f
• Italian: piccozza (it) f
• Polish: czekan (pl) m
• Russian: ледору́б (ru) m (ledorúb)
• Slovak: cepín (sk) m
• Spanish: piolet (es) m
• Turkish: buz kazması
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• ice pick

Further reading

• “ice axe”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “ice axe” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “ice ax”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.