mattock

English

A cutter mattock

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English mattok (“mattock, pickaxe”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English mattuc, meottoc, mettac (“mattock, fork, trident”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *mattukaz (“mattock, ploughshare”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *matn-, *mat- (“a hoe, ploughshare”). Related to Old High German medela (“plough”), Middle High German metze, metz (“knife”), Latin mateola (“implement for digging in the soil”), Polish motyka (“hoe, mattock”), Russian моты́га (motýga, “hoe, mattock”), Lithuanian matikkas (“mattock”), Sanskrit मत्य (matyà, “harrow, roller, club”). More at mason.

Noun

mattock (plural mattocks)

1. An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe.

Translations

agricultural tool

• Armenian: բրիչ (hy) (bričʻ)
• Burmese: ပေါက်တူး (my) (pauktu:)
• Catalan: aixada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鶴嘴鋤／鹤嘴锄 (zh) (hèzuǐchú), 鹤嘴锄 (zh) (háozuǐchú, hèzuǐchú)

• Crimean Tatar: (northern dialect also şoqaman) qazma
• Czech: motyka (cs) f
• Dutch: hak (nl) f
• Finnish: kaksiteräinen kuokka
• French: pioche-hache f
• Galician: sacho m
• German: Mattock m, Hacke (de) f
• Greek: αξίνα (el) f (axína)

  Ancient: σμινύη f (sminúē), δίκελλα f (díkella), μάκελλα f (mákella)

• Hungarian: csákány (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: haueto (io)
• Italian: piccone (it) m
• Japanese: マトック (matokku)
• Latin: ligō (la) m
• Latvian: kaplis (lv) m
• Maori: mātiki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hakke (no) m or f

• Persian: میتین (fa) (mitin)
• Portuguese: sacho (pt) m
• Romanian: târnăcop (ro) n, sapă (ro) f
• Russian: моты́га (ru) f (motýga), киркомоты́га (ru) f (kirkomotýga)
• Spanish: zapapico (es) m
• Ukrainian: біґа f (biga)
• Welsh: caib (cy) f

Verb

mattock (third-person singular simple present mattocks, present participle mattocking, simple past and past participle mattocked)

1. To cut or dig with a mattock.

See also

• adze
• hoe
• pick
• twibill

Further reading

• Mattock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Mattocks on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons