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mattock

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mat·tock  (mtk)
n.
A digging tool with a flat blade set at right angles to the handle.
[Middle English, from Old English mattuc, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *matteca, club; akin to *mattea; see mace1.]
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mattock
mattock
Noun
a type of large pick that has one flat, horizontal end to its blade, used for loosening soil [Old English mattuc]
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Noun1.mattockmattock - a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle
pickax, pickaxe, pick - a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends; "they used picks and sledges to break the rocks"
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Equally right or wrong is he who says that Napoleon went to Moscow because he wanted to, and perished because Alexander desired his destruction, and he who says that an undermined hill weighing a million tons fell because the last navvy struck it for the last time with his mattock.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Then more than four citizens will be required; for the husbandman will not make his own plough or mattock, or other implements of agriculture, if they are to be good for anything.
The Republic by Plato View in context
Some were on ladders, digging in the thatch of the house or the farm buildings, from which they brought out guns, swords, and different weapons of war; others carried them away; and by the sound of mattock blows from somewhere farther down the brae, I suppose they buried them.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
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