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plural mattocks
An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe. quotations examples
Workmen, breaking up an old floor, have come to him, mattocks in their hands, dismayed: ‘Mr Richard, see what we have turned up ...’
2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 695
third-person singular simple present mattocks, present participle mattocking, simple past and past participle mattocked
To cut or dig with a mattock. examples