Table of Contents
58 relations: Adze, Agriculture, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Anatolia, Ancient Greece, Antler, Axe, Baleen, Balto-Slavic languages, Banana, Basal shoot, Blubber, Boydell & Brewer, British Isles, Broch, Bronze Age, Byzantine Empire, Celtic languages, Club (weapon), Cognate, Diminutive, Dolabra, Dover Publications, Enlil, Flensing, Folk etymology, For Dummies, Germanic languages, Grubbing, Hand tool, Hesiod, Hoe (tool), Ice axe, Inuit, Lithuanian language, Loanword, Mesolithic, Nordic Africa Institute, Old Church Slavonic, Old English, Oxford English Dictionary, Pickaxe, Pottiputki, Pulaski (tool), Routledge, Rutgers University Press, Scotland, Semantics, Sod, Sumerian religion, ... Expand index (8 more) »
- Forestry tools
Adze
An adze or adz is an ancient and versatile cutting tool similar to an axe but with the cutting edge perpendicular to the handle rather than parallel.
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Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA; Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα) is one of 19 foreign archaeological institutes in Athens, Greece.
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Anatolia
Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Antler
Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) family.
Axe
An axe (sometimes ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split, and cut wood, to harvest timber, as a weapon, and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. Mattock and axe are forestry tools and Gardening tools.
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Baleen
Baleen is a filter-feeding system inside the mouths of baleen whales.
Balto-Slavic languages
The Balto-Slavic languages form a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, traditionally comprising the Baltic and Slavic languages.
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Banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.
Basal shoot
Basal shoots, root sprouts, adventitious shoots, and suckers are words for various kinds of shoots that grow from adventitious buds on the base of a tree or shrub, or from adventitious buds on its roots.
Blubber
Blubber is a thick layer of vascularized adipose tissue under the skin of all cetaceans, pinnipeds, penguins, and sirenians.
Boydell & Brewer
Boydell & Brewer is an academic press based in Martlesham, Suffolk, England, that specializes in publishing historical and critical works.
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British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.
Broch
In archaeology, a broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure found in Scotland.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Celtic languages
The Celtic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from Proto-Celtic.
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Club (weapon)
A club (also known as a cudgel, baton, bludgeon, truncheon, cosh, nightstick, or impact weapon) is a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon since prehistory.
Cognate
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.
Diminutive
A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to derogatorily belittle something or someone.
Dolabra
The dolabra is a versatile axe used by the people of Italy since ancient times.
Dover Publications
Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker.
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Enlil
Enlil, later known as Elil and Ellil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms.
Flensing
Flensing is the removing of the blubber or outer integument of whales, separating it from the animal's meat.
Folk etymology
Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.
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For Dummies
For Dummies is an extensive series of instructional reference books which are intended to present non-intimidating guides for readers new to the various topics covered.
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.
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Grubbing
Grubbing or clearing is the removal of trees, shrubs, stumps and rubbish from a site.
Hand tool
A hand tool is any tool that is powered by hand rather than a motor.
Hesiod
Hesiod (or; Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
Hoe (tool)
A hoe is an ancient and versatile agricultural and horticultural hand tool used to shape soil, remove weeds, clear soil, and harvest root crops. Mattock and hoe (tool) are Gardening tools.
Ice axe
An ice axe is a multi-purpose hiking and climbing tool used by mountaineers in both the ascent and descent of routes that involve snow, ice, or frozen conditions.
Inuit
Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
Lithuanian language
Lithuanian is an East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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Loanword
A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.
Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
Nordic Africa Institute
Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) serves as a research, documentation and information centre on modern Africa for the Nordic countries.
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Old Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic is the first Slavic literary language.
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Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Pickaxe
A pickaxe, pick-axe, or pick is a generally T-shaped hand tool used for prying. Mattock and pickaxe are Gardening tools.
Pottiputki
Pottiputki is a planting tool that was created by Tapio Saarenketo in the early 1970s, used for manual planting of containerized seedlings. Mattock and Pottiputki are forestry tools.
Pulaski (tool)
The Pulaski is a specialty hand tool used in fighting fires, particularly wildfires, which combines an axe and an adze in one head. Mattock and Pulaski (tool) are forestry tools and Mechanical hand tools.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press (RUP) is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Semantics
Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning.
Sod
Sod is the upper layer of turf that is harvested for transplanting.
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Sumerian religion
Sumerian religion was the religion practiced by the people of Sumer, the first literate civilization found in recorded history and based in ancient Mesopotamia, and what is modern day Iraq.
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Texas A&M University Press
Texas A&M University Press (also known informally as TAMU Press) is a scholarly publishing house associated with Texas A&M University.
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The Mountaineers (club)
The Mountaineers is an alpine club in the US state of Washington.
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Transitive verb
A transitive verb is a verb that entails one or more transitive objects, for example, 'enjoys' in Amadeus enjoys music.
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Tree planting
Tree planting is the process of transplanting tree seedlings, generally for forestry, land reclamation, or landscaping purposes.
Tree stump
After a tree has been cut and has fallen, the stump or tree stump is usually a small remaining portion of the trunk with the roots still in the ground.
Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal registers of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward.
Whale
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.
Works and Days
Works and Days (Érga kaì Hēmérai)The Works and Days is sometimes called by the Latin translation of the title, Opera et Dies.
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See also
Forestry tools
- Angle gauge
- Axe
- Axes
- Bahco
- Bark hack
- Billhook
- Biltmore stick
- Cant hook
- Chain (unit)
- Cruising rod
- Denailer
- Diameter tape
- Dragsaw
- Driptorch
- Farm Forestry Toolbox
- Fire flapper
- Fire rake
- Hand compass
- Helko
- Hook (hand tool)
- Inclinometer
- Increment borer
- Labrys
- Laser rangefinder
- Machete
- Mattock
- McLeod (tool)
- Microtome
- Pickaroon
- Pike pole
- Pottiputki
- Pulaski (tool)
- Relascope
- Root trainer
- Saws
- Seed trap
- Skidding (forestry)
- Tree caliper
- Tree planting bar
- Tree shelter
- Wedge prism
- Whoopie sling
References
Also known as Cutter mattock, Grub axe, Pick mattock.