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A mattock (/ ˈ m æ t ə k /) 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 ).
Between the blade and the spike was a ring into which the handle could be inserted at right angles to the head, with the handle inserted the tool could be used as a pick mattock. Besides being used for digging defensive fighting positions, entrenching tools were used for digging latrines and graves.
Ceremony hammer of a miner VEB Kombinat Senftenberg - with honorary uniform. 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.
Keilhaue: a pick (tool) with a single point Flügeleisen: a pick with two points, mainly used in historical coal mining to create the undercut and to extract coal; Breithaue: mattock [2] adze or hoe with a wide blade for soft rock like clay or brown coal; Kratze and Trog: paddle [2] and basket or tub. The coal or ore material was shovelled into ...
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A nearly complete 108-line poem from the Early Dynastic Period (c. 2900–2350 BC) describes Enlil's invention of the mattock, [76] [77] a key agricultural pick, hoe, ax, or digging tool of the Sumerians. [78] [77] In the poem, Enlil conjures the mattock into existence and decrees its fate. [79]
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