noun
mattock
Mattock (noun) means a farming tool like a pickaxe, with its blade set at a right angle to the handle.
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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 (“knife”), Latin mateola (“implement for digging in the soil”), Polish motyka (“hoe, mattock”), Russian моты́га (motýga, “hoe, mattock”), Lithuanian matikkas (“mattock”), and Sanskrit मत्य (matyà, “harrow, roller, club”). See also mason.
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What is the meaning of mattock?
"mattock" (noun) means a farming tool like a pickaxe, with its blade set at a right angle to the handle.
