Ice Pick

An ice pick is a pointed metal tool used to break, pick, or chip at ice, consisting of a sharp metal spike set into a handle that was traditionally wood but is now often plastic or rubber for a safer grip. During the 1800s, ice picks served an everyday domestic purpose: blocks of ice harvested from frozen lakes and rivers were delivered to households and broken into smaller pieces for use in iceboxes, the insulated cabinets that functioned as early refrigerators. The tool's household use declined sharply in the early to mid 1900s once refrigerators with built-in ice makers became common, removing the need to hand-chip ice at home. Ice picks remain in narrower use today, including by bartenders carving decorative ice for cocktails and by campers and sailors shaping ice carried for extended trips. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/