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English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Cutter_mattock.jpg/220px-Cutter_mattock.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmætək/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ætək
Noun
[edit]mattock (plural mattocks)
- An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe.
- 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 695:
- Workmen, breaking up an old floor, have come to him, mattocks in their hands, dismayed: ‘Mr Richard, see what we have turned up ...’
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]agricultural tool
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Verb
[edit]mattock (third-person singular simple present mattocks, present participle mattocking, simple past and past participle mattocked)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Mattock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Category:Mattocks on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]mattock
- Alternative form of mattok
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