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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[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.

’T is you must dig with

mattock

and with spade.

Shakespeare

Noun.

A tool to grub up weeds or roots; a grubbing hoe.