mattock

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

mattock
    n 1: a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade
         set at right angles to the handle

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Mattock \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.
   [1913 Webster]

         'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

Mattock
(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.

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