Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In hydraulic engineering, a long pole with an iron hook at the end, used in making and handling mats for jetty-work.
- noun A falsified form of
mattock .
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We cannot drive them back to the spinning wheel and the mathook, for they will not go.
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