Mattock vs. Pickaxe — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Mattock and Pickaxe
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Definitions
Mattock
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 which combines either a vertical axe blade with a horizontal adze (cutter mattock), or a pick and an adze (pick mattock).
Pickaxe
A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends;
They used picks and sledges to break the rocks
Mattock
A digging tool with a flat blade set at right angles to the handle.
Pickaxe
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.
Mattock
An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe.
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Pickaxe
Another term for pick (sense 1)
Mattock
To cut or dig with a mattock.
Pickaxe
Break or strike with a pickaxe.
Mattock
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.
'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade.
Pickaxe
A pick, especially with one end of the head pointed and the other end with a chisel edge for cutting through roots.
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Mattock
A kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat baled set at right angles to the handle
Pickaxe
To use a pickaxe.
Pickaxe
To use a pickaxe on.
Pickaxe
A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.
Pickaxe
To use a pickaxe.