mattock

n. 鹤嘴锄

发音

其它 /ˈmætək/

词形变化

mattocks 复数 mattocks mattocked mattocking mattocks 三单 mattocking 现在分词 mattocked 过去式 mattocked 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    鹤嘴锄

v.
  1. 1.

    To cut or dig with a mattock.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

pick pickaxe pickax

词源

From Middle English mattok (“mattock, pickaxe”), from Old English mattuc, meottoc, mettoc (“mattock, fork, trident”), from Proto-West Germanic *mattjuk (“mattock, ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *met- (“to cut, reap”). 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 моты́га (motýga, “hoe, mattock”), Lithuanian matikkas (“mattock”), Sanskrit मत्य (matyà, “harrow, roller, club”). More at mason.

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