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Middle English
Noun
mattoke
- Alternative form of mattok
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Etymology
From Middle English mattok, from Old English mattuc.
Pronunciation
Noun
mattoke
- spade
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 6-8:Na oure gladès ana whilke we dellt wi' mattoke, an zing t'oure caulès wi plou,- In our valleys where we were digging with the spade, or as we whistled to our horses in the plough,
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116