pitchfork

Meanings

Plural: pitchforks

Noun

• a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay
• 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.
• Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).
• A tuning fork.

Verb

• lift with a pitchfork
  • "pitchfork hay"
• To toss or carry with a pitchfork.
• To throw suddenly.

Synonyms

fork