pitchfork
Meaning
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- 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).
- A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
- (informal) Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).
- A tuning fork.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpɪt͡ʃˌfɔɹk/
Etymology
From Middle English pichfork, pycchefork, pychforke, pikeforke, pikkforke, pic-forcke, equivalent to pitch + fork.
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