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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 mat·tock /ˈmætək/
 鶴嘴鋤

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mat·tock 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.
    'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade.   --Shak.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 mattock
      n : a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat baled
          set at right angles to the handle

From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Mattock
    (1.) Heb. ma'eder, an instrument for dressing or pruning a
    vineyard (Isa. 7:25); a weeding-hoe.
      (2.) Heb. mahareshah (1 Sam. 13:1), perhaps the ploughshare or
    coulter.
      (3.) Heb. herebh, marg. of text (2 Chr. 34:6). Authorized
    Version, "with their mattocks," marg. "mauls." The Revised
    Version renders "in their ruins," marg. "with their axes." The
    Hebrew text is probably corrupt.