tined

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A many-tined pitchfork rested against one of the sheds.

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  1. Furnished with tines: used especially in combination: as, three -tined.

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  • He would tell how he reached into coral holes and under ledges in the daytime and pulled the big ones out He told how he sculled his boat over the reefs at night with a gasoline lantern burning in the bow, until the eyes of the crawfish gleamed like the eyes of cats in automobile headlights along a road at night, after which he gigged them with a little three-tined spear. —  073 - The Freckled Shark
  • Several shapes stepped out from between the trees—a tall bear, a wolf, a stag with twelve-tined antlers, an otter. —  The Flight of the Wren
  • His plate was heaped high with immense snails, and he probed in one of them with a long-tined fork, dragging out a piece of yellow snail meat and thrusting it into his mouth, wiping dripped sauce away with a napkin. —  EBSCOhost
  • But inside the room, a Satan stood; and he was as vivid to Johnny Littlejohn as if he stood there in reality, surrounded by the odor of brimstone, and leaning on his thin, three-tined pitchfork, his long tall with the spike on the end looped over his arm Two words had conjured the devil: John Sunlight Johnny Littlejohn had never seen John Sunlight. —  070 - The Devil Genghis
  • Then, after Josephus had whispered certain other words in the boy's ear, the boy went on to say that he beheld another demon, vastly bigger than the first, riding on horseback and bearing in his hand a three-tined fork. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jerome Cardan, by W.G. Waters.
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