mattock

How To Use mattock In A Sentence

• Other tools include a wheel cultivator, pickax, and mattock.
• Common forms of evidence include areas of discoloration on the walls of the cave, which demonstrate previous floor or sediment levels, and partially excavated deposits which preserve mattock or other metal tool marks.
• These new arrivals from the continent renamed the landscape, towns, and many of the rivers in their own tongue so that only a handful of pre-Anglo Saxon British words-such as mattock, brock, bannock-remain in modern English. Futureofthebook.com
• Using this, and a bladed tool like a mattock, it takes him 15 days to prepare the ground for planting.
• He produced a mattock out of his donkey-cart and had several peasant boys dig a hole.
• Tinkering in his blacksmith shop, he created a tool that's half ax, half mattock, and ideal for digging firebreaks.
• “Give me your mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me.” Les Miserables
• Crews dropped their saws and mattocks and fled.
• Then, with a mattock and shovel, we dug into the side of the hill to make a spot for a level platform, which needed to be heavily reinforced because most of the hillside consisted of loose rock and shale.
• Such trenches are ordinarily extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night — for it must be done at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on the Les Miserables