mattock

3 definitions found

mattock - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

mattock - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mattock
      n 1: a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade
           set at right angles to the handle

mattock - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  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.