mattock

English

A cutter mattock

Etymology

From Middle English mattok (“mattock, pickaxe”), from Old English mattuc, meottoc, mettac (“mattock, fork, trident”), from Proto-Germanic *mattukaz (“mattock, ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *mat- (“a hoe, ploughshare”). Related to Old High German medela (“plough”), Middle High German metze, metz (“knife”), Latin mateola (“implement for digging in the soil”), Russian мотыга (motýga, “hoe, mattock”), Sanskrit मत्य (matyà, “harrow, roller, club”). More at mason.

Noun

mattock (plural mattocks)

1. An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickax.

Translations

agricultural tool

Armenian: բրիչ (hy) (brič) Chinese: 鶴嘴鋤, 鹤嘴锄 Crimean Tatar: qazma (northern dialect also şoqaman) Czech: motyka (cs) f. Dutch: hak (nl)

Finnish: kuokka German: Mattock m., Hacke Greek: αξίνα (el) (axína) f., αξινάρι (el) (axinári) n., σκαλιστήρι (el) (skalistíri) n. Spanish: zapapico (es) m.

See also

• hoe
• pick
• twibill

External links

• Mattock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Mattocks on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Category:Mattocks