noun

mattock

Mattock (noun) means an agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe.

noun

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

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Etymology

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”). Related to Old High German medela (“plough”), Middle High German metze, metz (“knife”), Latin mateola (“implement for digging in the soil”), Polish motyka (“hoe, mattock”), Russian моты́га (motýga, “hoe, mattock”), Lithuanian matikkas (“mattock”), Sanskrit मत्य (matyà, “harrow, roller, club”). More at mason.

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"mattock" (noun) means an agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe.