mattock
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Noun — A farming tool like a pickaxe, with its blade set at a right angle to the handle.
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Etymology
It comes from Middle English mattok (“mattock, pickaxe”), from Old English mattuc, meottoc, mettoc (“mattock, fork, trident”), from Proto-West Germanic *mattjuk (“mattock, ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *met- (“to cut, reap”). It is related to Old High German medela (“plough”), Middle High German metze, metz (...
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