mattock
An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxeAn agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe.
Meaning
1 sensesAn agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe.
Mattock, Hacke, Breithacke
моты́гаmotýga, киркомоты́гаkirkomotýga
біґаbiga
- a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English mattok (“mattock, pickaxe”), from Old English mattuc, meottoc, mettocFrom 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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