Significat

• Noun

  1. An agricultural tool comprising a fork with sparse, light tines, attached to a long handle, used for pitching hay (especially loose hay) high up onto a stack (as on a wagon or haystack, or into a haymow).
  2. A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
  3. (informal) Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).
  4. A tuning fork.

• Verb