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MATTOCK (O.E. mattuc, of uncertain or...

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 902 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MATTOCK (O.E. mattuc, of uncertain origin)  , a See also:tool having a See also:double See also:iron See also:head, of which one end is shaped like an See also:adze, and the other like a pickaxe . The head has a socket in the centre in which the handle is inserted transversely to the See also:blades . It is used chiefly for grubbing and rooting among See also:tree stumps in plantations and copses, where the roots are too See also:close for the use of a See also:spade, or for loosening hard See also:soil .

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