mattock

Pronunciation:		'matuk
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WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat baled set at right angles to the handle

	See Also:	pick, pickax, pickaxe

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Mat"tock\, n. [AS. mattuc; cf. W. matog.] An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax. 'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade. --Shak.

Easton Bible Dictionary

	Definition:	(1.) Heb. ma'eder, an instrument for dressing or pruning a vineyard (Isa. 7:25); a weeding-hoe. (2.) Heb. mahareshah (1 Sam. 13:1), perhaps the ploughshare or coulter. (3.) Heb. herebh, marg. of text (2 Chr. 34:6). Authorized Version, "with their mattocks," marg. "mauls." The Revised Version renders "in their ruins," marg. "with their axes." The Hebrew text is probably corrupt.