mamotyn.

1782 C. 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.

1843 J. W. Bennett Ceylon & its Capabilities xxxvi. 294 The favorite implement of the Singhalese, the Mamotie, was introduced by the Dutch, and is something of the shape of a shovel.

1852 F. A. Neale Narr. Resid. Siam viii. 138 By means of a mometty or hatchet..this fellow dug..a reservoir.

1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 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.

1920 Blackwood's 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.

1940 Nature 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.

1982 C. de Silva Winds of Sinhala ix. 107 Soon we began passing bare-bodied peasants returning home from the fields, with mud-stained mamoties on their shoulders.