Example sentences for: pickwick

How can you use “pickwick” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The plane was equipped with a pickwick , a sharp distinctive cutting edge to gouge out the desired groove, and the term came to be applied to the wood as well as the tool.

  • Was a pickwick, then, the prototype of the sharp-profiled attachment on a plane?

  • Once again from the sawmill or more correctly the planing mill, the term pickwick in the following sense has nothing to do with Dickens.

  • Pickwick comes to us from the age of oil lamps: when the wick burned down too low to give a good flame, it had to be raised, often by use of a sharp-pointed instrument designed expressly to do that, a pickwick .


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