mattock
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 →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Isaiah mentions hills that were once dug with a mattock but later were left to be grazed. In the primary 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
- but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. (Prophets 1SA.13.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the price of the filing was a pim for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads. (Prophets 1SA.13.21, JPS 1917) tree →
- And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep. (Prophets ISA.7.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- The men dug the hard ground with their mattocks. tree →
- She carried a mattock up the mountain. tree →
- They searched all evening, swinging their mattocks. tree →
note
nothing for maths
Trees and pragmatics
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