Mattock

Word MATTOCK
Character 7
Hyphenation mat tock
Pronunciations /ˈmætək/

Definitions and meanings of "Mattock"

What do we mean by mattock?

A digging tool with a flat blade set at right angles to the handle. noun

An instrument for loosening the soil in digging, shaped like a pickax, but having its ends broad instead of pointed. noun

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. noun

An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickax. noun

A kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle noun

An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe.

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The word "mattock" in example sentences

[320-5] A mattock is a two-bladed instrument for digging. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

A mattock is a digging tool that is used to break up soil so that you can shovel it easier. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These new arrivals from the continent renamed the landscape, towns, and many of the rivers in their own tongue so that only a handful of pre-Anglo Saxon British words-such as mattock, brock, bannock-remain in modern English. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Matthew needs to get to the bottom line of this Bushian toilet flush: all the American consumer ultimately needs is a mattock, an axe, some seed corn, and an iron pot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fred Phelps beat his wife and his children with his fists, a leather barber strap, or the wooden handle of a mattock, a tool like an ax. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Such trenches are ordinarily extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night — for it must be done at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on the ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Give me your mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

If a mattock caib had just been invented, I am sure that they would baptise it an 'offeryn miniog deuben'....... and then scratch their heads as to why people aren't using the word at all. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We chose which roots to chop with a mattock and which to let lie. ❋ Dudemanflab (2008)

A mattock and shovel lay by the verge of the grave. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ravenswood found that the man of the last mattock was absent at a bridal, being fiddler as well as grave-digger to the vicinity. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“To Corri-nan-shian, Father,” answered the youth. — “Martin and Dan, take pickaxe and mattock, and follow me if you be men!” ❋ Unknown (2008)

For the soldier whose campaigns are over venerates his shield and arms, and grateful Corydon shows regard for his decaying team, harrow, flail and mattock, and every manual artificer for the instruments of his craft; it is only the ungrateful cleric who despises and neglects those things which have ever been the foundation of his honours. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The frontal bone of the skull, where it had been struck with the mattock, fell off; and, as the back of the head rested on the red-hot bottom bars of the furnace, the brains literally seethed, bubbled and boiled as in a cauldron, for a very long time .... ❋ Unknown (2005)

We were startled and drawn together by a dull hollow sound that followed the blow of a mattock; the iron had struck a skull, and the body was soon uncovered. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But she told herself that the work was to be done; so she dragged the body away thence, and across the brook, and a little way into the meadow, and then she went back and fetched mattock and spade from the outhouse, where she knew they lay, and so fell to digging a grave for the corpse of her dead terror. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then there should be a mattock and a shovel apiece for every waggon, and on every beast of burden a billhook and an axe, always useful to the owner and sometimes a boon to all. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Isch. And if a gang of men set to, to break and make this fallow with the mattock, it is transparent that their business is to separate the quitch grass from the soil and keep them parted? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Swedenborg is retrospective, nor can we divest him of his mattock and shroud. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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