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• The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire’s castle.From the entry torch
• The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork.From the entry deal
• 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
• Yeah us neither, just grab a pitchfork and dig in.2021 November 9, Bad Manners, Michelle Davis, Matt Holloway, Brave New Meal: Fresh as F*ck Food for Every Table: A Vegan Cookbook…. From the entry frankenpie
• He held the freshly cut liver of a harvestee in one hand and a pitchfork in the other.2015, Andrew Snook, Remy's Dilemma, page 22. From the entry harvestee
• 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
• Pitchfork dimwittedly chose to interview him at a gun range; following the Lil Jojo murder, it removed the interview from its Web site and apologized.2012 October 4, Jon Caramanica, “Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry dimwittedly
• 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
• After “living the life of Riley” for over a year, successfully evading the pitchforks and the bullets of the farmers, whose fields she ravaged in all four seasons.1911, “Bullet Ends Life of Famous Wild Cow”, The Hartford Courant, December 1911. From the entry life of Riley

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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How do you use pitchfork in a sentence?

Pitchfork is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The city council was facing the pitchforks once the public had realized what the new ordinance entailed.”

What is a short sentence with pitchfork?

“The hay was soon pitchforked onto the wagon.”

What does pitchfork mean?

Pitchfork means 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).