So people say; but the tool pictured in http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4103306.stm and miscalled by that name is in fact an ice ax (a device whose purposes include cutting steps on glaciers and arresting slides on ice & snow), not an ice pick (a awl-like device whose purpose was cutting chips off the big blocks of ice that used to be delivered in the days before refrigeration).

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