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Groundbreaking invention?
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mattock
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A mattock is a versatile hand tool , used for digging and chopping, similar to the pickaxe . It has a long handle, and a stout head, which combines an axe blade and an adze ( cutter mattock ) or a pick and an adze ( pick mattock ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickax.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mattock \Mat"tock\, n. [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. --Shak. ...
Usage examples of mattock.
Drigor just shook his head, and with aching arms shouldered his beslimed mattock.
Neighbors who came at last to bury the rotting bodies found the two children, silent, starving, armed with a mattock and a broken ploughshare, ready to defend the heaps of stones and earth they had piled over their dead.
Sent shallop to head of harbor with mattocks and spades, as desired by those ashore, the seamen taking their muskets also.
Bedding, cookware, food, candles, a tin box of lucifer matches and the sandpaper needed to ignite them, a dry bundle of fatwood kindling, a coil of rope, a hand axe, shotgun with powder and shot and wadding, grain for the horse, a mattock and spade.
Babylonian organization was well up to seeing that there were plenty of sickles and mattocks.
With a clatter and a clang, hand weapons cascaded out of nowhere: war axes, mattocks, cleavers, falchions, stabbing spears, all good steel sharpened and blackened against rust.
Charging into this milling melee, dwarves with mattocks and warhammers chopped at orcs, hollering the names of their ancient gods and ancestors.
We use mattocks to break up the loam, shovels to scoop it out, except for the hard-packed sod on top.
I fear, are mere levellers, who, when they bad once got to work with their mattocks on this venerable edifice, would never stop until they had brought it to the ground, and perhaps buried themselves among the ruins.
Provided with these, and with axes, mattocks, and spades, Minarii and two of his native companions were soon hard at work on shore, hacking through the dense thickets and digging out a zigzag trail to the level ground above.
Side by side on two rows, Christian and Smith began to ply their mattocks, digging a hole at each stake, filling it in with softened earth and decaying vegetation.
They said that the last challengee was a troll who hit it with a mattock for forty years.
Where had mine kobolds, not even up to making their own mattocks, got such skilled work from?
A stock of shovels, mattocks, and pick-axes was brought from the gourbi, and with Ben Zoof as overseer, both Spanish majos and Russian sailors set to work with a will.
Therefore, lest he should fall asleep, he set the end of the helve of his mattock on the ground, and seated himself on the cross part, leaning against the wall, so that as long as he kept awake he should rest, but the moment he began to fall asleep he must fall awake instead.