Mattock vs. Pickaxe — What's the Difference?

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).

A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends;

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

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.

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

Another term for pick (sense 1)

To cut or dig with a mattock.

Break or strike with a pickaxe.

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.

A pick, especially with one end of the head pointed and the other end with a chisel edge for cutting through roots.

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

To use a pickaxe.

To use a pickaxe on.

A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.

To use a pickaxe.