Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a kind of pick that is used for digging;
has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mattock \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.
[1913 Webster]
'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mattock
n 1: a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade
set at right angles to the handle