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mattocking

mattocking is the present participle and gerund of mattock.

Meaning of mattock

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.

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Questions about mattocking

What is mattocking the present participle and gerund of?
Mattocking is the present participle and gerund of mattock.

Words near mattocking in the dictionary

  1. Mattison
  2. Mattmiller
  3. mattness
  4. mattock
  5. mattocked
  6. mattocking
  7. mattocks
  8. Mattockses
  9. mattoid
  10. mattoids
  11. mattoir

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mattocking (page history and authors); mattock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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