Mattock vs. Hoe — 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 tool with a flat blade attached approximately at a right angle to a long handle, used for weeding, cultivating, and gardening.

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

To weed, cultivate, or dig up with a hoe.

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

To work with a hoe.

To cut or dig with a mattock.

An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.

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.

Alternative spelling of ho.

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

A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

(ambitransitive) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

(transitive) To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

Alternative spelling of ho.

A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.

The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.

To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.

To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.

A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle

Dig with a hoe;