mattock

noun

A digging tool with a flat blade set at right angles to the handle.

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An instrument for loosening the soil in digging, shaped like a pickax, but having its ends broad instead of pointed.

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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.

noun

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

noun

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