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Mattock

A mattock (/ˈmætək/) is a hand tool used for digging, prying, and chopping. Similar to the pickaxe, it has a long handle and a stout head which combines either a vertical axe blade with a horizontal adze (cutter mattock), or a pick and an adze (pick mattock). A cutter mattock is similar to a Pulaski used in fighting fires. It is also commonly known in…

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Digging tool
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Pickaxe

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Mattock

Nodes57
Edges56
Triples52
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.035088
Components1

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related to Etymology · 25
Mattock → Although, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, English, Forms, Germanic, However, Inuit, Irish, It, Lithuanian, Middle High German, Old Church Slavonic, Old English, Old High German, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-European, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, The
related to history · 18
Mattock → According, As, Asia Minor, British Isles, Bronze Age, Byzantine, Days, Enlil, Greece, Greek, Hesiod's Works, Inuit, Late Mesolithic, Mattocks, Scotland, Sumerian, Their, They
related to Uses · 3
Mattock → Mattocks, The, They
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Mattock → Digging tool
Related · 1
Mattock → Pickaxe
related to Description · 1
Mattock → The

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adze used axe cutter tool mattocks digging combines pickaxe head blade similar pick also long made including english commonly known

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MattockClassificationDigging tool1.00infobox
MattockRelatedPickaxe1.00infobox
mathookeinstance ofForms0.80text
motthookinstance ofForms0.80text
mathook were produced by folk etymologyinstance ofForms0.80text
Mattockrelated to DescriptionThe0.60section
Mattockrelated to EtymologyThe0.60section
Mattockrelated to EtymologyProto-Germanic0.60section
Mattockrelated to EtymologyProto-Indo-European0.60section
Mattockrelated to EtymologyThere0.60section
Mattockrelated to EtymologyGermanic0.60section
Mattockrelated to EtymologyCeltic0.60section

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