different between mattock vs hattock

English

Etymology

From Middle English mattok (“mattock, pickaxe”), from Old English mattuc, meottoc, mettac (“mattock, fork, trident”), from Proto-Germanic *mattukaz (“mattock, ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *matn-, *mat- (“a hoe, ploughshare”). Related to Old High German medela (“plough”), Middle High German metze, metz (“knife”), Latin mateola (“implement for digging in the soil”), Polish motyka (“hoe, mattock”), Russian ??????? (motýga, “hoe, mattock”), Lithuanian matikkas (“mattock”), Sanskrit ???? (matyà, “harrow, roller, club”). More at mason.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæt?k/

Noun

mattock (plural mattocks)

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

Translations

Verb

mattock (third-person singular simple present mattocks, present participle mattocking, simple past and past participle mattocked)

1. To cut or dig with a mattock.

See also

• adze
• hoe
• pick
• twibill

Further reading

• Mattock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mattocks on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology

From hat +? -ock (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

hattock (plural hattocks)

1. (Scotland, archaic) A small hat.

Derived terms

• horse and hattock