Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gardeners' three-tined fork with a short handle.
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Examples
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The first earthing should be done with a hand-fork, and quite loosely, to allow the heart of the plant room to expand.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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Stir up the bed every day for a fortnight to the depth of about nine inches, with a hand-fork, and if you discover any fire-heat, immediately give water to the part affected, that being the only effectual remedy that can be applied.
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Only by combing the earth through and through between the rows of plants with the small hand-fork (after all the intruders have been removed as carefully as possible with the hand), can you be sure that they are gone.
An Island Garden 1894
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The ingenuity of modern times has invented many variations of these primitive instruments of toil, and many of them are most useful and helpful, as, for instance, a short, five-pronged hand-fork, a delightful tool to use in breaking up the earth about the roots of weeds.
An Island Garden 1894
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Hoeing and digging with a garden hand-fork the worst weeds
Berks county news 2009
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