mattocks in English

noun
1
an agricultural tool shaped like a pickax, with an adze and a chisel edge as the ends of the head.
Laborers used tools resembling mattocks or hoes for digging and used woven reed baskets for hauling dirt and debris.

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1. Mattocks, Fost and Ackroyd are Britain's first three Astronauts

2. They cost ￡50 from Notcutts garden centres or mail order from Mattocks Roses.

3. When cultivation is done with mattocks and hoes women do it; when a tractor comes along, men drive it.

4. 20 And all the Israelites had to go down to the Phi·lisʹtines to get their plowshares, mattocks, axes, or sickles sharpened.

5. Archaeology is a gathering skill where players can excavate materials, soil, and artefacts using mattocks, then restore the artefacts at an archaeologist's workbench

6. 21 The price for sharpening was a pim* for the plowshares, for the mattocks, for the three-toothed instruments, for the axes, and for fixing fast the oxgoad.

7. “The price for sharpening proved to be a pim for the plowshares and for the mattocks and for the three-toothed instruments and for the axes and for fixing fast the oxgoad,” states the Bible. —1 Samuel 13:21.