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- mattock
- An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body; similar in appearance to a pickax
- mattock
- {n} a pickax, a tool to grub trees up
- mattock
- a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat baled set at right angles to the handle
- mattock
- {i} farming tool shaped like a pick-axe, hoe (Old English)
- mattock
- a tool used for digging, with a long handle and a metal blade. Picklike digging implement, one of the oldest tools of agriculture. It resembles the modern hoe but with a stone or wooden blade rather than a metal one, set at right angles to a long wooden handle. Though large-scale agriculture uses plows, harrows, and rotary hoes that open many rows of a field simultaneously, home gardeners and horticulturists may still use mattocks to loosen dirt and to chop weeds
- mattock
- The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax
- mattock
- An implement for digging and grubbing
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