1) Digging pick 2) Exclusively Anglo word 3) Exclusively Saxon word 4) Forestry tool 5) Mechanical hand tool 6) Pick 7) Pick for digging 8) Pickax 9) Pickaxe 10) Word of purely Anglo origin 11) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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A mattock k 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). In some countries the term dibber is used for a mattock. In New Zealand it is known as a grubber. A mattock has a shaft, ...
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pickaxe for loosening soil
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• (n.) 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.
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A sturdy two-bladed tool with an adz blade that can be used as a hoe for digging in hard ground. The other blade may be a pick (pick mattock) for breaking or prying small rock or a cutting edge (cutter mattock) for chopping roots.
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digging implement, one of the oldest tools of agriculture. See hoe.[1 related articles]
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Mat'tock noun [ Anglo-Saxon
mattuc ; confer 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.»
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The mattock is an agricultural implement comprised of a metal head having blades at each end presented in different planes, and an eye in the middle into which a handle is inserted perpendicularly to the head. The cutting edges are presented like those of an axe and an adze, and the mattock was used formerly in forests and plantations for grubbing ...
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[
n] - a kind of pick that is used for digging
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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.
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noun a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle
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