| 释义 |
ˈpattock local.
Also puttock.
[? Altered from mattock.]
A grubbing mattock: see quots.
1728Jas. Douglas in Phil. Trans. XXXV. 572 To take up the Saffron Heads, or break up the Ground,..they sometimes plough it, sometimes use a forked Kind of Hough called a Pattock. [So 1766 Complete Farmer s.v. Saffron.] 1903Wright Eng. Dial. Dict., Puttock..Manufacturers of tools, whose works are in Birmingham, have frequently had the grubbing or stocking mattock asked for under this name. |