Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mattock"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Mattock
(1.) Heb. ma'eder, an instrument for dressing or pruning a
vineyard (Isa. 7:25); a weeding-hoe.
(2.) Heb. mahareshah (1 Sam. 13:1), perhaps the ploughshare or
coulter.
(3.) Heb. herebh, marg. of text (2 Chr. 34:6). Authorized
Version, "with their mattocks," marg. "mauls." The Revised
Version renders "in their ruins," marg. "with their axes." The
Hebrew text is probably corrupt.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mattock \Mat"tock\, n. [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. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mattock
n : a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat baled
set at right angles to the handle
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