Mattock vs. Pickaxe

Mattocknoun

An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe.

Mattockverb

To cut or dig with a mattock.

Mattocknoun

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.

Mattocknoun

a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat baled set at right angles to the handle

Mattock

A mattock is a hand tool used for digging, prying, and chopping. Similar to the pickaxe, it has a long handle and a stout head which combines either a vertical axe blade with a horizontal adze (cutter mattock), or a pick and an adze (pick mattock).

Pickaxenoun

A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.

Pickaxeverb

To use a pickaxe.

Pickaxenoun

a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends;

Pickaxenoun

another term for pick (sense 1)

Pickaxeverb

break or strike with a pickaxe.

Pickaxe

A pickaxe, pick-axe, or pick is a generally T-shaped hand tool used for prying. Its head is typically metal, attached perpendicularly to a longer handle, traditionally made of wood, occasionally metal, and increasingly fiberglass.