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Meanings of mattock in English

Spanish
alcotana

Adze-like hand tool for chopping, digging, and prying, especially for planting in hard ground.

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Examples for "pickaxe"
Examples for "pickaxe"
1
He was holding a long pickaxe in the piolet en canard position.
Rock and Ice Magazine
2
The pickaxe is looked upon with the utmost veneration by the tribe.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
3
You need a pickaxe to keep your place in a Roman queue.
Neither here nor there: travels in europe
4
Then take hold of this pickaxe, and see how you like it.
The Gold Hunters' Adventures; Or, Life in Australia
5
Diamond having neither pickaxe nor spade, had the more time to think.
At the Back of the North Wind
Usage of mattock in English
1
At it he rushed, hitting vigorously at the edge with his mattock.
The Princess and Curdie
2
The men were compelled to get a mattock to loosen its jaws.
Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel through Brittany
3
When Paullinus went back to the hut he found a rough mattock.
Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories / Reprinted from The Hill of...
4
They were very badly suited for handling the mattock, shovel, and hand-barrow.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
5
I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock.
Les Misérables
6
The stone yielded, and he proceeded to work with the mattock.
Clarimonde
7
The colonel agreed, and Curdie went-notwithout his mattock, because of the dogs.
The Princess and Curdie
8
Curdie thought of his mattock, and ran and laid it aside.
The Princess and Curdie
9
Again he took his mattock, and went to the back wall.
The Princess and Curdie
10
Swedenborg is retrospective, nor can we divest him of his mattock and shroud.
Representative Men: Seven Lectures
11
One skull is like another, and is as lightly split with a mattock.
Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship
12
The Harvester gripped the mattock and advanced to the bed.
The Harvester
13
They had a mattock and shovel, and they made their way here without accident.
Wandering Ghosts
14
Curdie caught it in his left hand, and heaved his mattock with the other.
The Princess and Curdie
15
Seeing Orman, he limped over and extended a hand as large as a mattock.
Assail
16
And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor.
Les Misérables
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Translations for mattock
Spanish
alcotana
Mattock through the time
Mattock across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common