verb · intransitive · rare

mattock

mattock · mattocks · mattocked · mattocking

To cut or dig with a mattockTo cut or dig with a mattock.

/ˈmætək/

Origin

From Middle English mattok (“mattock, pickaxe”), from Old English mattuc, meottoc, mettoc

From Middle English mattok (“mattock, pickaxe”), from Old English mattuc, meottoc, mettoc (“mattock, fork, trident”), from Proto-West Germanic *mattjuk (“mattock, ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *met- (“to cut, reap”). 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.

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Forms

mattocks, mattocking, mattocked, mattocked

Base form	mattock · to mattock
3rd person singular	mattocks
Present participle	mattocking
Past simple	mattocked
Past participle	mattocked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	mattock
he, she, it	mattocks

Past simpleLesson

all persons

mattocked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have mattocked
he, she, it	has mattocked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all persons

will mattock

Word family

4 related words

RelatedpickA1 adze hoe twibill

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle