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Meaning of MATTOCK

Pronunciation:  'matuk

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat baled set at right angles to the handle
 
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 See Also: pick, pickax, pickaxe

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
      'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade. --Shak.
 
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Easton Bible Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

(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.

 
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