mattock
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mattock¹
- /ˈmætək/
Rhymes with -ætək
Where it comes from
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”). 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”), Sanskrit मत्य (matyà, “harrow, roller, club”). More at mason.
noun mattocks
- An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe. Workmen, breaking up an old floor, have come to him, mattocks in their hands, dismayed: ‘Mr Richard, see what we have turned up ...’
verb mattocks · mattocking · mattocked
- To cut or dig with a mattock.
Mattock²
proper noun
- A surname.
Translations
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noun agricultural tool
| Español | zapapico, azadón, azada, zapa |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | マトック matokku |
| 中文 | 鶴嘴鋤 /鹤嘴锄 háozuǐchú, hèzuǐchú |
| Português | sacho |
| Français | pioche-hache |
| Deutsch | Mattock, Hacke, Breithacke, Rodehacke, Karst, Queraxt |
| Italiano | piccone |
| Ελληνικά | αξίνα axína |
| Română | târnăcop, sapă |
| Русский | моты́га motýga, киркомоты́га kirkomotýga |
| العربية | مِعْوَل miʕwal |
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title = {mattock},
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