Mattock

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A digging tool with a flat blade set at right angles to the handle.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickax.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An instrument for loosening the soil in digging, shaped like a pickax, but having its ends broad instead of pointed.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pickax    pickaxe    pick   
    Cross Reference
    pick    twibill    hoe   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    crowbar    pick-axe    shovel    scythe    sledge-hammer    adz    wheelbarrow    ploughshare    hoe    battle-ax   
     
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