pitchfork

noun · verbB2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

pitchforks

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.
(broadly, informal)(casual, loosely) Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).
4.
(rare)A tuning fork.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

pitchforks

V_ing/Gerund

pitchforking

V_ed/pp

pitchforked

1.
(transitive)To toss or carry with a pitchfork.
The hay was soon pitchforked onto the wagon.
2.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To throw suddenly.

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dungforkmanure forkgraiphurl pitch

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English pichfork, pycchefork, pychforke, pikeforke, pikkforke, pic-forcke, equivalent to pitch + fork (i.e. "a fork used for pitching or throwing material, like hay"). The figurative sense (angry mob or its effects) is an allusion to a crowd of farmers wielding their farm tools as weapons.