mattock

How To Use mattock In A Sentence

• Corn merchant William Mattock said it was an excellent scheme and pointed out that in 1902 offensive and dangerous effluvia had risen from the sewers and incidents of diphtheria had risen significantly.
• Tinkering in his blacksmith shop, he created a tool that's half ax, half mattock, and ideal for digging firebreaks.
• Hole planting can be done with a mattock, hoe or shovel.
• Kill weeds with glyphosate herbicide, pull them by hand, or chop them with a hoe or mattock and rake them up.
• Fields are generally tiny, and you sometimes see a man ploughing one with a tractor, or a woman weeding one with a mattock.
• An ax or mattock will come in handy to chop out the roots that you will inevitably encounter.
• A mattock is a digging tool that is used to break up soil so that you can shovel it easier. Epinions Recent Content for Home
• Ravenswood found that the man of the last mattock was absent at a bridal, being fiddler as well as grave-digger to the vicinity. The Bride of Lammermoor
• I calls my cove -- for he is my cove -- a snarler; because your first-rates at matthew mattocks are called snarlers, and for no other reason; for the chap, though with a high front, is a good chap, and once drank a glass of ale with me, after buying an animal out of my stable. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
• Kill weeds with glyphosate herbicide, pull them by hand, or chop them with a hoe or mattock and rake them up.