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mattocks

mattocks is the plural of mattock.

mattocks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mattock.

Meaning of mattock

Noun

mattock (plural mattocks)

  1. An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe.
    • Workmen, breaking up an old floor, have come to him, mattocks in their hands, dismayed: ‘Mr Richard, see what we have turned up ...’2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 695

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Proper noun capitalized: Mattocks

Mattocks (plural Mattockses)

  1. A surname.

Forms of mattocks

pluralMattockses

Origin of mattocks

Variant spelling of Maddox.

Questions about mattocks

What does mattocks mean?
Mattocks means a surname.
What is mattocks the plural of?
Mattocks is the plural of mattock.
What part of speech is mattocks?
Mattocks is a proper noun.

Words near mattocks in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mattocks (page history and authors); Mattocks (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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