Pitchfork
['pɪtʃfɔːk] or ['pɪtʃ'fɔrk]
Definition
(noun.) a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay.
(verb.) lift with a pitchfork; 'pitchfork hay'.
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Definition
(n.) A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
(v. t.) To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Pitchforks in dreams, denotes struggles for betterment of fortune and great laboring, either physically or mentally. To dream that you are attacked by some person using a pitchfork, implies that you will have personal enemies who would not scruple to harm you.
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Examples
- Mr. Dagley himself made a figure in the landscape, carrying a pitchfork and wearing his milking-hat--a very old beaver flattened in front. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There are three there, Bill, with a jolly large blue unicorn and gold pitchfork on 'em: which is the old lady's arms. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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