pitchfork
pronunciation
How to pronounce pitchfork in British English:
UK [ˈpɪtʃfɔ:k]
How to pronounce pitchfork in American English:
US [ˈpɪtʃfɔrk]
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- Noun:
- a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay
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- Verb:
- lift with a pitchfork
Word Origin
- pitchfork
- pitchfork: see pike
- pitchfork (n.)
- mid-14c., altered (by influence of pichen "to throw, thrust;" see pitch (v.1)) from Middle English pic-forken (c. 1200), from pik (see pike (n.4)) + fork (n.). The verb is attested from 1837.
Example
- 1. Chris kaskie , president of pitchfork media
- 2. Pitchfork : and where does he get the reputation for ego and arrogance ?
- 3. Hi I want to buy a demonic pitchfork .
- 4. Hard though it may be to imagine mr romney waving a pitchfork or manning a barricade , schumpeter is not joking .
- 5. When a young man without coat , and shouldering a pitchfork , appeared in the yard behind .