| Using this, and a bladed tool like a mattock, it takes him 15 days to prepare the ground for planting. |
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| The women toil in the broiling sun, backs bent, feet bare, working for hours at a stretch with a mattock, for most the only tool for every job. |
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| Tinkering in his blacksmith shop, he created a tool that's half ax, half mattock, and ideal for digging firebreaks. |
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| Kill weeds with glyphosate herbicide, pull them by hand, or chop them with a hoe or mattock and rake them up. |
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| He produced a mattock out of his donkey-cart and had several peasant boys dig a hole. |
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| An ax or mattock will come in handy to chop out the roots that you will inevitably encounter. |
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| One of my favorite tools from my farming days on the Big Island is a miniature version of the mattock. |
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| Fields are generally tiny, and you sometimes see a man ploughing one with a tractor, or a woman weeding one with a mattock. |
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| I noticed it when I realized I was using my mattock as a pry bar, not for rocks, as was intended, but for myself. |
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| But Peter is elsewhere now, admiring an Iron Age mattock, a chunk of quartz, and a nineteenth-century fishing skiff, actual size. |
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| Thinking there might be gold inside, he smashed the jar with his mattock, and found instead thirteen papyrus books bound in leather. |
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| He is given his white clothing, his loincloth, and a small mattock for digging his own latrines. |
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| However, according to the observation, most of the time, he used his little mattock. |
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| The day when the mattock of earthworkers will strike a base in Gallo-Roman device, will be the most beautiful day of his life. |
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| Other tools include a wheel cultivator, pickax, and mattock. |
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| There is no need to have a pick and a hoe, if you have a mattock. |
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| Today the tool, described as combining an axe with either a mattock or grub hoe, is sold for gardening and clearing nature trails, as well as firefighting. |
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| He picked up the mattock, which combines an axe head and a prying tool, and went inside. |
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