| Mattock (n.) 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. Thesaurus Entries adz, ax, blade, bread knife, bushwhacker, butcher knife, carving knife, chaser, chisel, cleaver, clipper, clippers, cold steel, cutlery, cutter, cutting edge, dagger, edge, edge tools, featheredge, gouge, hack, hatchet, hoe, hunting knife, jackknife, knife, knife-edge, lance, lancet, letter-opener, machete, mattock, naked steel, nippers, paper cutter, paper knife, paring knife, penknife, pick, pickax, pigsticker, plowshare, point, puncturer, razor, razor blade, razor-edge, saw knife, sax, scalpel, scissors, scoop, scraper, scuffle hoe, scythe, share, sharpener, shears, sheath knife, sickle, sidecutters, snips, spear, spokeshave, steel, surgical knife, sword, table knife, toad sticker, weapon, wedge, whittle |