Pitchfork

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A large, long-handled fork with sharp, widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay.
  • v. To lift or toss with or as if with a pitchfork.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
  • v. To toss or carry with a pitchfork.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
  • v. To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A fork for lifting and pitching hay or the like.
  • n. A tuning-fork.
  • To lift or throw with a pitchfork.
  • To put, throw, or thrust suddenly or abruptly into any position.
  • n. 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay
  • v. lift with a pitchfork
    • Verb Form
    pitchforked    pitchforking    pitchforks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hand tool    lift   
    Cross Reference
    tuning fork   
    Form
    rain pitchforks   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pickax    trident    sledge-hammer    mattock    forklift   
     
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