Adze-like hand tool for chopping, digging, and prying, especially for planting in hard ground.
1 At it he rushed, hitting vigorously at the edge with his mattock .
2 The men were compelled to get a mattock to loosen its jaws.
3 When Paullinus went back to the hut he found a rough mattock .
4 They were very badly suited for handling the mattock , shovel, and hand-barrow.
5 I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock .
6 The stone yielded, and he proceeded to work with the mattock .
7 The colonel agreed, and Curdie went-notwithout his mattock , because of the dogs.
8 Curdie thought of his mattock , and ran and laid it aside.
9 Again he took his mattock , and went to the back wall.
10 Swedenborg is retrospective, nor can we divest him of his mattock and shroud.
11 One skull is like another, and is as lightly split with a mattock .
12 The Harvester gripped the mattock and advanced to the bed.
13 They had a mattock and shovel, and they made their way here without accident.
14 Curdie caught it in his left hand, and heaved his mattock with the other.
15 Seeing Orman, he limped over and extended a hand as large as a mattock .
16 And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor.
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