| Thinking there might be gold inside, he smashed the jar with his mattock, and found instead thirteen papyrus books bound in leather. |
| One of my favorite tools from my farming days on the Big Island is a miniature version of the mattock. |
| Fields are generally tiny, and you sometimes see a man ploughing one with a tractor, or a woman weeding one with a mattock. |
| Tinkering in his blacksmith shop, he created a tool that's half ax, half mattock, and ideal for digging firebreaks. |
| He produced a mattock out of his donkey-cart and had several peasant boys dig a hole. |
| 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. |
