mattock – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
mattock
n.
farming tool shaped like a pick-axe, hoe (Old English)
Mattock
A
mattock is a versatile
hand tool, used for digging and chopping, similar to the
pickaxe. It has a long handle, and a stout head, which combines an
axe blade and an
adze (
cutter mattock) or a pick and an adze (
pick mattock).
mattock
Noun
1. a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat baled set at right angles to the handle
(hypernym) pick, pickax, pickaxe
Mattock
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Mattock
(Isaiah 7:25) The tool used in Arabia for loosening the ground, described by Neibuhr, answers generally to our mattock or grubbing-axe, i.e. a single-headed pickaxe. The ancient Egyptian hoe was of wood, and answered for hoe, spade and pick.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) , by William Smith.
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