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mamootie|ˈmæmətɪ|
Also mammotie, mamooty, mam(m)oty, mamuty, mometty.
[ad. Tamil mammaṭṭi, altered form of maṇveṭṭi, f. maṇ earth + veṭṭi spade.]
A digging tool used mainly in India, shaped like a hoe with the blade at an acute angle to the helve.
1782C. Salmon in G. W. Forrest Sel. Lett. Govt. India (1890) III. 855 He marched..with two battalions of sepoys, leaving the cavalry..who were ordered to make a show of entrenching themselves by digging with mamuties. 1852F. A. Neale Narr. Residence Siam viii. 138 By means of a mometty or hatchet..this fellow dug..a reservoir. 1858P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 238/1 Mammotie, a road hoe, used in Ceylon. 1881W. W. Greener Gun 587 For shooting on the plains nothing but a mamoty, a crowbar, a mallet, and a couple of axes are required, and these can all be had in India. 1920Blackw. Mag. Oct. 467/2 A company of pioneers each man with pick or shovel or mamootie slung in leather slings on his back. 1934‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days (1935) vi. 83 He..swung his mamootie aloft again and hacked at the dry ground. 1940Nature 20 July 91/2 The scraping is effected with an ordinary mammoty (like a pointed spade with a recurved handle), removing about ½ in. of soil. |