mattock
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A mattock () 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 North America as a "grub axe".
Key facts
- Tool.name
- Mattock
- Tool.image
- Cutter mattock.jpg
- Tool.caption
- A "cutter mattock" combines both axe and adze blades.
- Tool.classification
- Digging tool
- Tool.related
- Pickaxe
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- physical tool
- Subclass of
- agricultural tool
- Image
- Cutter mattock.jpg
- Said to be same as
- pickaxe
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- Commons category
- Mattocks
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- partially coincident with
- hoe
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Uses
- History
- Etymology
- See also
- References
A mattock () 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 North America as a "grub axe".
==Description== A mattock has a shaft, typically made of wood, which is long. The head consists of two ends, opposite each other and separated by a central eye. A mattock head typically weighs . The form of the head determines the kind and uses of the mattock: A cutter mattock combines the functions of an axe and adze, with its axe blade oriented vertically and longer adze horizontally. A pick mattock combines the function of a pick and adze, with a pointed end opposite an adze blade.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mattock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.