pitchfork

n. large and long-handled fork for lifting and tossing materials (such as hay, grain, etc.)

n. load with a pitchfork; throw with a pitchfork

This article is about the tool. For the online music magazine see Pitchfork Media. For the band, see Pitchfork (band). A pitchfork is a tool with a long handle and long, thin, widely separated pointed tines (also called prongs) used to lift and throw loose material, such as hay, leaves, grapes, or other agricultural products. Pitchforks typically have from 2 to 6 tines and have different lengths and spacing depending on purpose. It is similar to a spading fork, and the two are often confused. It is made from wood, steel, iron, bamboo, 2 types of metal mixed, etc.. Many people use the pitch fork on farms. It is an agricultural tool.
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Noun
1. a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay
(hypernym) hand tool
(part-meronym) tine
(derivation) fork
Verb
1. lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay"
(synonym) fork
(hypernym) lift

(v. t.)
To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.
  

(n.)
A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
  

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.