mattocks

The crossing of mattocks, that is to say, the actual meeting of the workmen underground, was often the abrupt signal for contention; the driving of narrow headings was a means by which one coal-owner might gain possession of coal which of right belonged to another; and a pit, though sunk at a cost of several thousand pounds, had no secured possession of coal beyond 12 yards round it, that is, a tract of coal 24 yards in diameter.

The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846

It still contained a considerable number of tools, such as mattocks, shovels, and pick-axes.

Off on a Comet 2003

It still contained a considerable number of tools, such as mattocks, shovels, and pick-axes.

Off on a Comet 1877

It still contained a considerable number of tools, such as mattocks, shovels, and pick-axes.

Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Jules Verne 1866

So, in the second chapter of Isaiah, the scholars assembled in the Puritan John Rainolds's rooms in Corpus Christi, Oxford, faced the following in the Bishops' Bible: "They shall break their swords also into mattocks, and their spears to make scythes: and one people shall not lift up a weapon against another, neither shall they learn to fight from henceforth".

The King James Bible reconsidered | David Edgar 2011

We sense the weight of the mattocks, imagine the pull of the swinging tools.

Iberian Treasures in Chalk and Ink Karen Wilkin 2010

We made a stack of useful tools that needed fixing, axes and hoe blades and mattocks and rakes, their broken handles made of hand-shaped ash.

The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

The Israelites were so poor that they had to go to the Philistines to sharpen their ploughshares, mattocks, axes and sickles.

New church may have answer to Zimbabwe���s woes 2009

As for a class war … they bring polo sticks, I bring mattocks.

Waldo Jaquith - Late Night Shots. 2007

[36] You, gentlemen, who are in command of the road-makers, you have the lists of the soldiers I have disqualified from serving as javelin-men, bowmen, or slingers, and you will make the old javelin men march with axes for felling timber, the bowmen with mattocks, and the slingers with shovels.

Cyropaedia 2007