Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large, long-handled fork with sharp, widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay.
- transitive verb To lift or toss with or as if with a pitchfork.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun plural Either Bidens cernua, the nodding bur-marigold, or B. frondosa, the black beggar-ticks: so called from the two prong-like awns of the adhesive achenes. See
devil's-pitchforks . - noun A fork for lifting and pitching hay or the like.
- noun A tuning-fork.
- To lift or throw with a pitchfork.
- To put, throw, or thrust suddenly or abruptly into any position.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
- transitive verb To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
agricultural tool comprising afork attached to a long handle used forpitching hay orbales of hay high up onto ahaystack . - verb transitive To toss or carry with a pitchfork.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay
- verb lift with a pitchfork
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And, while the pitchfork is packed away for now, I hope he knows, it can come right back out very quickly.
Twilight Lexicon » Official News from Summit and Stephenie Meyer 2008
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Sen. Claire McCaskill D-Mo. seemed to imply that the path Republicans were on concerning the matter could lead to some sort of angry "pitchfork" - wielding mob.
Sen. Bob Menendez Likens GOP Talk On Bush Tax Cuts To 'Terrorist' Negotiations (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Sen. Claire McCaskill D-Mo. seemed to imply that the path Republicans were on concerning the matter could lead to some sort of angry "pitchfork" - wielding mob.
Sen. Bob Menendez Likens GOP Talk On Bush Tax Cuts To 'Terrorist' Negotiations (VIDEO) The Huffington Post 2010
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Sen. Claire McCaskill D-Mo. seemed to imply that the path Republicans were on concerning the matter could lead to some sort of angry "pitchfork" - wielding mob.
Sen. Bob Menendez Likens GOP Talk On Bush Tax Cuts To 'Terrorist' Negotiations (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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An affection for deep-fried steak known as "pitchfork fondue" and the occasional roadside oddity—like Salem Sue, a 38-foot fiberglass Holstein cow—doesn't hurt.
Crop Scouts Stalk North Dakota's Amber Waves of Grain Mark Peters 2011
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An instant later, the tines of a pitchfork were a handspan from his eyes.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Take Five Interview: Juliet Marillier and The Well of Shades 2007
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I want to put them right here in the studio because the pitchfork is a symbol to our weasels in Washington that we ` re sick of them acting like royalty.
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It ` s actually a manure pitchfork, which is good for Washington.
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The long handle of the pitchfork was the trail over which we had just come, the joining of the handle and the prongs were El Poso.
Notes of a War Correspondent Richard Harding Davis 1890
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After breakfast, Mr. Ripley put a four-pronged instrument into my hands, which he gave me to understand was called a pitchfork; and he and Mr. Farley being armed with similar weapons, we all three commenced a gallant attack upon a heap of manure.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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