pitchfork

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
    — After my second illness, being too old for “piggy-back rides”, I generally sat in 'Resting Nuke' on a seat naturally formed in a low branch of a cedar, watching relatives down in the bay with pitchforks furiously digging out long black slithery "cockworms" from the muddy sands of Sinky Bay.
  3. Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers). broadly,informal
  4. A tuning fork. rare
    — I went around with a pitchfork [tuning fork] in my pocket, and I'd hit it whenever I thought of it, and I developed perfect pitch […]
动词 v.
  1. To toss or carry with a pitchfork. transitive
    — The hay was soon pitchforked onto the wagon.
  2. To throw suddenly. figuratively,transitive
    — We have taken an age-old country, and we have suddenly, in 30 years, pitchforked it into the middle of the factory system.

词形变化

pitchforks plural pitchforks present,singular,third-person pitchforking participle,present pitchforked participle,past pitchforked past

词汇关系

衍生词
pitchforkful pitchforklike rain pitchforks

词源

词源 1
From Middle English pichfork, pycchefork, pychforke, pikeforke, pikkforke, pic-forcke, equivalent to pitch + fork.
词源 2
From Middle English pichfork, pycchefork, pychforke, pikeforke, pikkforke, pic-forcke, equivalent to pitch + fork.
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