Plural of pitchfork

Forms of pitchfork

Pitchforks in a sentence

• The city council was facing the pitchforks once the public had realized what the new ordinance entailed.
• The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire’s castle.From the entry torch
• A fashion-plate showing human pitchforks in garments which looked as hard as steel plate.1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC. From the entry fashion plate
• We’ve now spent eight years watching Republican congressmen scurrying hither and thither brandishing pitchforks, outraged at the latest whiff of terrorist fist-bumpery.2016 September 4, Hari Kunzru, “The [Barack] Obama years: novelists assess his legacy”, in The New Review (The Observer), London, →ISSN…. From the entry bumpery
• The garment stalls carried the traditional blue vine-dressers' outfits, sunhats, and the great willow pitchforks grown in espalier at villages like Sauve.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 223. From the entry espalier

Meaning of pitchfork

1. noun An agricultural hand 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. noun A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
3. noun Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).

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Questions about the plural of pitchfork

What is the plural of pitchfork?

The plural of pitchfork is pitchforks.

Is pitchfork countable?

Pitchfork is a countable noun.