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pitchfork
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Word definitions for pitchfork in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An agricultural tool comprising a fork attached to a long handle used for pitching hay or bales of hay high up onto a haystack. vb. (context transitive English) To toss or carry with a pitchfork.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A pitchfork is an agricultural tool with a long handle and tines used to lift and pitch or throw loose material, such as hay , straw or leaves.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pitchfork \Pitch"fork`\, v. t. To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork. He has been pitchforked into the footguards. --G. A. Sala.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay v. lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay" [syn: fork ]
Usage examples of pitchfork.
And all the villagers were there, every male soul on the estate from Hob the austringer down to old Wat with no nose, all carrying spears or pitchforks or old scythe blades or stout poles.
Every adult in camp, not just the soldiers had some kind of weapon in hand, shovels, picks, pitchforks, sharpened stakes, and many a makeshift club.
They would unchain their dogs and round up their horses, and stab pitchforks through the mesh of their cornricks.
His landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face immediately brightened on seeing Rostov.
In that very same orchard behind his house, where once as a small boy he had seen Bird for the first time and had felt the tremor of joy of that adventure, he now paced back and forth in agitation, to the goat stall, to the kitchen window, to the rabbit coop and beyond, his Sunday coat grazing the hayrakes, pitchforks, and scythes hanging on the back wall of the barn -- upset and confused, almost intoxicated with thoughts, wishes, and resolutions, heavyhearted, thinking of Judas, a thousand heavy dream-ducats in the bag.
The pitchfork left three holes in the front of his shirt, and three tiny spots of blood.
Four hundred of them now rose in revolt, and armed with pitchforks, scythes and what firearms they could lay hold of, marched on the village of Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia.
A score or more had gathered to watch, and in a few hands Sharantyr saw axes, pitchforks, and clubs.
There were roars of approval, and Daera saw men with pitchforks and axes running to catch up.
It clanged against old axes and short swords and pitchforks until sparks flew and the numbed hands of their wielders wavered.
The next Wolf was already beset by four dalefolk wielding pitchforks and clubs.
Children snatched up pitchforks, women ran for butcher knives, elders wielded whatever weapons they could lay their hands on.
One bore an heirloom sword, but the others had axes, pikes which looked as if they had been handed down for generations, pitchforks and cudgels.
More than one face looked upon him with suspicion, and a knot of beefy laborers had tumbled out of a cart, armed with pitchforks and shovels.
The old roan, so famous for cross-country work, turning his large eyeball to the grated window near his rack, may remember the fresh leaves that glisten there at other times and the scents that stream in, and may have a fine run with the hounds, while the human helper, clearing out the next stall, never stirs beyond his pitchfork and birch-broom.