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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 2024


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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