mattock
- n a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle
- With the fortitude of men who have sown for other men's reaping the greens-gang of Oakmont Country Club (Pittsburgh) last week laid away mower, mattock and weeding knife.
- First the tree trunk is scooped out with a mattock and fire, then chipped with a hand-ax and machete, finally scraped with a piece of broken glass until it is as smooth as a wooden .
- Into the storm an Indian leans, and with his mattock chops a hopeless furrow which the wind fills silently behind him.