MATTOCK

Mattock. Mattock
(1.) Heb. ma’eder, an instrument for dressing or pruning a vineyard (Isa. 7:25); a weeding-hoe.

(2.) Heb. mahareshah (1 Sam. 13:1), perhaps the ploughshare or coulter.

(3.) Heb. herebh, marg. of text (2 Chr. 34:6). Authorized Version, “with their mattocks,” marg. “mauls.” The Revised Version renders “in their ruins,” marg. “with their axes.” The Hebrew text is probably corrupt.

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MATTOCK. → General scriptures concerning 1Sa 13:20,21; Isa 7:25

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mattock. Mattock, n. a pickax, a tool to grub trees up

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Mat″tock (?), n. [[AS. mattuc; cf. W. matog.]] An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax. 'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade. Shak.