name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pitchfork
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈpɪt͡ʃˌfɔɹk/
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noun
Meaning 2
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fork, tool
noun
Meaning 3
A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dungfork, manure fork, graip
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fork, tool
noun
Meaning 4
Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fork, tool
noun
Meaning 5
A tuning fork.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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verb
Meaning 6
To toss or carry with a pitchfork.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The hay was soon pitchforked onto the wagon.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To throw suddenly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
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noun
Meaning 8
a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hand tool
verb
Meaning 9
lift with a pitchfork
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- pitchfork hay
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fork
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lift
History
Etymology
From Middle English pichfork, pycchefork, pychforke, pikeforke, pikkforke, pic-forcke, equivalent to pitch + fork.
Across languages
Translations
111 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: sfurk — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Arabic: شَوْكَة (šawka) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Arabic: مِذْرَاة (miḏrāh) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Armenian: եղան (eġan) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Azerbaijani: yaba — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Azerbaijani: beşbarmaq — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Bashkir: һәнәк (hənək) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Basque: sarde — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Belarusian: ві́лы (víly) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Bulgarian: ви́ла (víla) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Catalan: forca — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Chamicuro: ashtoli — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Chinese Mandarin: 杈 (chā) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Chinese Mandarin: 叉 (chā) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Choctaw: chufak isht piha — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Choctaw: hʋshuk isht piha — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Crimean Tatar: senek — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Czech: vidle — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Danish: høtyv — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Danish: fork — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Dutch: hooivork — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Dutch: mestvork — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Dutch: riek — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Esperanto: forkego — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Estonian: hang — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Finnish: hanko — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Finnish: heinähanko — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Finnish: talikko — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- French: fourche — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Friulian: forcje — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Gagauz: diiren — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Galician: forcada — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Galician: galleta — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- German: Heugabel — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- German: Mistgabel — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- German: Furgge — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Greek: δίκρανο (díkrano) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Greek: δικράνι (dikráni) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Greek: πιρούνα (piroúna) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Ancient Greek: δίκρανον (díkranon) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Hungarian: vasvilla — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Icelandic: heygaffall — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Ido: forko — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Ingrian: hanko — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Irish: píce — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Italian: forcone — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Italian: forca — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Japanese: ピッチフォーク (pitchifōku) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Komi-Zyrian: вила (vila) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Komi-Zyrian: лэбын (lebyn) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Latin: mergae — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Latin: furcilla — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Lezgi: кьуьк (q̇ük) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Luxembourgish: Mëschtgreef — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Macedonian: вила (vila) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Eastern Mari: шаньык (šańyk) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Western Mari: шеньӹк (šeńÿk) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Maricopa: chmaly — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Mazanderani: لیفا (lifâ) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Mòcheno: gabel — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Mongolian: өвсний сэрээ (övsnii seree) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Nogai: сенек (senek) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Norwegian: fork — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Norwegian: høygaffel — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- O'odham: cuaʼaknakud — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Persian: هید (heyd) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Persian: چنگک (čangak) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Polish: widły — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Portuguese: forcado — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Portuguese: forquilha — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Portuguese: garfo — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Romanian: furcă — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Russian: ви́лы (víly) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Saanich: TĆOŦEN — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Northern Sami: háŋgu — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Serbo-Croatian: виле — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Serbo-Croatian: рачве — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Serbo-Croatian: vile — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Serbo-Croatian: račve — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Slovak: vidly — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Slovene: vile — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Southern Altai: айырмууш (ayïrmuuš) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Southern Altai: айырмаш (ayïrmaš) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Southern Altai: айрууш (ayruuš) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Spanish: horca — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Spanish: horquilla — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Spanish: horqueta — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Spanish: horcón — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Spanish: mielga — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Swedish: högaffel — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Swedish: hötjuga — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Tarifit: tazzart — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Thai: คราด (krâat) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Tibetan: ཁ་བྲག — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Turkish: yaba — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Turkish: dirgen — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Udmurt: вилка (vilka) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Ukrainian: ви́ла (výla) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Ukrainian: ґа́блі (gábli) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Ukrainian: га́блі (hábli) — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Vietnamese: chĩa — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Walloon: fotche — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Walloon: fonne — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Welsh: picwarch — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Welsh: fforch wair — farm tool with 2 or more tines
- Spanish: bieldo — farm tool with 4 or more tines
- Spanish: bielgo — farm tool with 4 or more tines
- Spanish: aventador — farm tool with 4 or more tines
- Spanish: aviento — farm tool with 4 or more tines
- Spanish: bielda — farm tool with 4 or more tines
- Spanish: horca pajera — farm tool with 4 or more tines
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