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Definition of Mattock
1. Noun. A kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle.
Definition of Mattock
1. 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.
Definition of Mattock
1. Noun. An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickax. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mattock
1. a digging tool [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mattock
Literary usage of Mattock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"At one blow with a pick a large wedge shaped piece of earth can be loosened from
a bank, when the face of the wedge is free, while with a mattock a single ..."
2. Excavation by Allen Boyer McDaniel (1919)
"The hand tools ordinarily used are the mattock, the pick, ... The mattock is a
long-handled tool, shaped like a pick-axe, but having blades instead of ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"... John White, first cabin-boy, slight wound in the leg ; Edward mattock ;
Captain's Mate .... mattock ..."
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