Mattock

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mattock \Mat"tock\, n. [AS. mattuc; cf. W. matog.]
     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.
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           'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mattock
       n : a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat baled
           set at right angles to the handle

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Mattock
     (1.) Heb. ma'eder, an instrument for dressing or pruning a
     vineyard (Isa. 7:25); a weeding-hoe.
     
       (2.) Heb. mahareshah (1 Sam. 13:1), perhaps the ploughshare or
     coulter.
     
       (3.) Heb. herebh, marg. of text (2 Chr. 34:6). Authorized
     Version, "with their mattocks," marg. "mauls." The Revised
     Version renders "in their ruins," marg. "with their axes." The
     Hebrew text is probably corrupt.