单词 | pattock |
释义 | pattockn. English regional. rare. A tool for hoeing or uprooting plants; a mattock. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > mattock, hoe, or hack > mattock mattockeOE beckc1000 twibillc1440 cabbie1653 pattock1729 two-bill1808 mat1895 1729 Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 572 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. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 661/1 Puttock..Manufacturers of tools, whose works are in Birmingham, have frequently had the grubbing or stocking mattock asked for under this name. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1729 |
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