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Webster 1913 Edition

Mattock

Mat′tock

,
Noun.
[AS.
mattuc
; cf. W.
matog
.]
An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax.
’T is you must dig with
mattock
and with spade.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Mattock

MAT'TOCK

,
Noun.
A tool to grub up weeds or roots; a grubbing hoe.

Definition 2025

mattock

mattock

English

A cutter mattock

Noun

mattock ‎(plural mattocks)

  1. An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickax.

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Etymology

From Middle English mattok ‎(“mattock, pickaxe”), from Old English mattuc, meottoc, mettac ‎(“mattock, fork, trident”), from Proto-Germanic *mattukaz ‎(“mattock, ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *matn-, *mat- ‎(“a hoe, ploughshare”). Related to Old High German medela ‎(“plough”), Middle High German metze, metz ‎(“knife”), Latin mateola ‎(“implement for digging in the soil”), Polish motyka ‎(“hoe, mattock”), Russian моты́га ‎(motýga, “hoe, mattock”), Lithuanian matikkas ‎(“mattock”), Sanskrit मत्य ‎(matyà, “harrow, roller, club”). More at mason.

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