A mattock is a digging tool that is used to break up soil so that you can shovel it easier. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
"A mattock is more practical, I believe," said Tom. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
Enter Romeo and Balthasar, with a torch, mattock, & c. From Wordnik.com. [Romeo and Juliet] Reference
The woodman said: "Do you want wood? give me a mattock.". From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
The smith said: "Do you want a mattock? give me some coals.". From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
But deep and wider grows the trench, as spade and mattock ply. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
“Give me your mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me.”. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
We chose which roots to chop with a mattock and which to let lie. From Wordnik.com. [Hurrah] Reference
But stack our guns, then fall to work with mattock and with spade. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
"This is what Jerry wanted that mattock for, I bet!" he exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
As they passed the foot of the stairs, Macloud picked up a mattock. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
He returned to his truck and opened the toolbox, looking for his mattock. From Wordnik.com. [Fault Line]
It needed to be scraped clean with a mattock and then picked at with a knife. From Wordnik.com. [Fault Line]
Swedenborg is retrospective, nor can we divest him of his mattock and shroud. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
Hastening to his home he sought out an old battered mattock and a rusty spade. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Oval blade planting hoe planting mattock grubbing mattock pickaxe shovel wooden dibble. From Wordnik.com. [4. Planting techniques] Reference
Sheming had spoken about, nor could she find a mattock, or pickax, on this second day. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
The most economical method of planting is for one man to make the holes with a mattock. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
The mattock should be short and strong, and the shovel of the sort called diamond-pointed. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
To break big stones, heat and pour tap water over the rock before breaking with pick mattock. From Wordnik.com. [1. Establishing Contour Lines] Reference
"Good! here's either one you want -- pickax or mattock," were the words he whispered to Ruth. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
The boy had been caught because he tried to get the mattock Ruth and Tom had put out for him. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
The "grubbing mattock" and the "planting mattock" have sturdy narrow blades with straight edges. From Wordnik.com. [4. Planting techniques] Reference
So on top of his axe blisters and machete blisters, Spider got to add some pick mattock blisters. From Wordnik.com. [1968]
In many countries, the hoe and mattock are more generally used and are suitable for winning clay. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
"Oh! never mind the lantern, Emmanuel; you'll not want it; but you may bring a mattock and a shovel.". From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
The ground is turned up with the mattock, and the seed planted by dibbling between the stumps of trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
On one side, he could hear Mr. Calder digging with his mattock into the hilltop chalk and grunting as he dug. From Wordnik.com. [The Uninvited]
He had worked diligently in the same place where his ancestors had wielded the pick, the crowbar, and the mattock. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground City] Reference
Another time he started off with me and some other workmen to root up trees, but he grazed his neck with a mattock. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories] Reference
"Slave," said Bennaskar, "dig that female out of the ground: the spade and the mattock are hidden under the floor.". From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
"The maker of the dead man's bed," has laid down his mattock and his spade, and filled a grave prepared by other hands. From Wordnik.com. [Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland] Reference
In the mornings I would be at it with mattock and spade delving hard at the founds, and I had the great days sliping stones. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
Everyone else canned a tool — shovel, axe, or pick mattock — for making bunkers each night, one for each two or three men. From Wordnik.com. [1968]
Ravenswood found that the man of the last mattock was absent at a bridal, being fiddler as well as grave-digger to the vicinity. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
On the discovery of the new field, all the old colliers had hastened to leave the plow and harrow, and résumé the pick and mattock. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground City] Reference
Drawn by the peace and seclusion of this shadowy, green world, he laid aside his mattock and wandered to the edge of the hazel thicket. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
One might well believe that it had been pierced by the hand of man, that the pick and mattock had emptied it in the working of a new vein. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground City] Reference
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