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# mattock

«mattock» in Mova's school dictionary: **a digging tool like a pickaxe, with a heavy blade on one…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (mattock, mattocks)

### meaning for a pupil

A mattock is a digging tool like a pickaxe, with a heavy blade on one side and a flat or pointed blade on the other, used for breaking hard ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattock/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a tool in tales used by workers or searchers to dig for something hidden, such as a secret opening or a buried treasure

### examples

- The men dug the hard ground with their mattocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattock/#x1)
- She carried a mattock up the mountain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattock/#x2)
- They searched all evening, swinging their mattocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattock/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mattock» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattock/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.