How To Use Mattock In A Sentence
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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.
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Tinkering in his blacksmith shop, he created a tool that's half ax, half mattock, and ideal for digging firebreaks.
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Hole planting can be done with a mattock, hoe or shovel.
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Kill weeds with glyphosate herbicide, pull them by hand, or chop them with a hoe or mattock and rake them up.
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Fields are generally tiny, and you sometimes see a man ploughing one with a tractor, or a woman weeding one with a mattock.
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An ax or mattock will come in handy to chop out the roots that you will inevitably encounter.
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A mattock is a digging tool that is used to break up soil so that you can shovel it easier.
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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
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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.
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Kill weeds with glyphosate herbicide, pull them by hand, or chop them with a hoe or mattock and rake them up.
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They were quickly replacing their automatic rifles and machine-guns with spades and mattocks.
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They began to hack at the hard, dehydrated earth, with mattocks, breaking up the soil and watering it enough to plant vegetables.
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There is no need to have a pick and a hoe, if you have a mattock.
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I noticed it when I realized I was using my mattock as a pry bar, not for rocks, as was intended, but for myself.
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The steady thunk, thunk of the mattock as he worked through the stony ground was inspiring, not just for me but for several neighbours, who came out to work in their own gardens.
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Laborers used tools resembling mattocks or hoes for digging and used woven reed baskets for hauling dirt and debris.
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A mattock and shovel lay by the verge of the grave.
The Monastery
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One of my favorite tools from my farming days on the Big Island is a miniature version of the mattock.
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Mattock reduced the arrears with a fine strike.
Times, Sunday Times
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Matthew needs to get to the bottom line of this Bushian toilet flush: all the American consumer ultimately needs is a mattock, an axe, some seed corn, and an iron pot.
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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.
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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.
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Using this, and a bladed tool like a mattock, it takes him 15 days to prepare the ground for planting.
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He produced a mattock out of his donkey-cart and had several peasant boys dig a hole.
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Tinkering in his blacksmith shop, he created a tool that's half ax, half mattock, and ideal for digging firebreaks.
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“Give me your mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me.”
Les Miserables
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Crews dropped their saws and mattocks and fled.
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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.
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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
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Other tools include a wheel cultivator, pickax, and mattock.
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“To Corri-nan-shian, Father,” answered the youth. — “Martin and Dan, take pickaxe and mattock, and follow me if you be men!”
The Monastery
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Fred Phelps beat his wife and his children with his fists, a leather barber strap, or the wooden handle of a mattock, a tool like an ax.
Son Leaves 'America's Most Hated Family,' And God, Behind
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Today the tool, described as combining an axe with either a mattock or grub hoe, is sold for gardening and clearing nature trails, as well as firefighting.
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Fields are generally tiny, and you sometimes see a man ploughing one with a tractor, or a woman weeding one with a mattock.
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[320-5] A mattock is a two-bladed instrument for digging.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
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The women toil in the broiling sun, backs bent, feet bare, working for hours at a stretch with a mattock, for most the only tool for every job.
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Her love arrived at dusk, skulking by owl-light, carrying a bag, from which he took a mattock, shovel, knife.
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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.
