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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pitchfork
noun
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▪ And Mister Johnny picked up a pitchfork ... Carrie screamed and put her hands over her eyes.
▪ As pitchforks they certainly pass muster.
▪ As he is about to bury the gold coins, his imbecile brother Jacob appears, pitchfork in hand.
▪ Frederick was leaning on his pitchfork, apparently listening to Mister Johnny who was waving his small hands and gabbling.
▪ Jimmy went for a pitchfork at that stage.
▪ She fell on a pitchfork when she was little, Thérèse said: everyone knows that.
▪ They fell silent, scythes and pitchforks hovering in mid-shake.
▪ Thorvald smoked his pipe while leaning on the pitchfork and talked about his coming marriage, his fourth.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pitchfork

Pitchfork \Pitch"fork`\, n. A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.

Pitchfork

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pitchfork

mid-14c., altered (by influence of pichen "to throw, thrust;" see pitch (v.1)) from Middle English pic-forken (c.1200), from pik (see pike (n.4)) + fork (n.). The verb is attested from 1837.

Wiktionary
pitchfork

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.

WordNet
pitchfork
  1. n. a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay

  2. v. lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay" [syn: fork]

Wikipedia
Pitchfork

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.

Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork, formerly known as Pitchfork Media, is a Chicago, United States-based online music magazine devoted to music journalism, news, album reviews, and feature stories. Founded in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, who was working in a record store at the time, the magazine developed a reputation for its extensive focus on independent music, but it has since expanded with a variety of coverage on both indie and popular music artists.

The site generally concentrates on new music, but Pitchfork journalists have also reviewed reissued albums and box sets. The site has also published "best-of" lists – such as the best albums of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and the best songs of the 1960s – as well as annual features detailing the best albums and tracks of each year since 1999.

Pitchfork (album)

Pitchfork is the debut EP by the band Clutch, which was released on vinyl 7" & 12" in October 1991, only in the USA.

Pitchfork (band)

Pitchfork was an American post-hardcore band formed in 1986 in San Diego, California and disbanded in 1990. They are most well known as the first "real" band (after high school effort Conservative Itch/Coitus Interruptus) of guitarist John Reis, who would later gain fame as the frontman in Rocket from the Crypt, and as the first collaboration between Reis and singer Rick Froberg (the two would later form Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes). As an aspiring visual artist and illustrator, Froberg provided most of the band's artwork while Reis developed his studio skills by acting as producer on their records.

Pitchfork (disambiguation)

A pitchfork is a long-handled tool with sharp, widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching (throwing) loose material such as hay or dung.

Pitchfork may also refer to:

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.