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 →

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 →
• She carried a mattock up the mountain. tree →
• They searched all evening, swinging their mattocks. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mattock» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.