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 combining either a vertical axe blade with a horizontal adze, called a cutter mattock, or a pick and an adze, called a pick mattock. A cutter mattock is similar in shape to the firefighting tool called a Pulaski. In North America the mattock is also commonly known as a grub axe.
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Introduced When (Circa)The mattock shape now familiar was already established by the Bronze Age in Asia Minor and ancient Greece. 1 OriginMattocks made from antlers first appear in the British Isles in the Late Mesolithic, probably used chiefly for digging. 1 Introduced era (class) In the Other Atlases
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Wikimedia FoundationHistory section, Bronze Age shape sentence
Their shape was already established by the Bronze Age in Asia Minor and ancient Greece.
History section, antler-mattock British Isles sentence
Mattocks made from antlers first appear in the British Isles in the Late Mesolithic.
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