Usually means: Tool with long handle, tines.
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  1. pitchfork: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pitchfork: Merriam-Webster
  3. pitchfork: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pitchfork: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pitchfork: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pitchfork: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pitchfork, pitchfork: Wordnik
  8. pitchfork: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pitchfork: Wiktionary
  10. pitchfork: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pitchfork: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pitchfork: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pitchfork, pitchfork: Dictionary.com
  14. pitchfork: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pitchfork: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pitchfork (album), Pitchfork (band), Pitchfork (disambiguation), Pitchfork (film), Pitchfork (magazine), Pitchfork (website), Pitchfork: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pitchfork: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pitchfork: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pitchfork: Rhymezone
  20. Pitchfork: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pitchfork: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pitchfork: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pitchfork: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pitchfork: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pitchfork: Encyclopedia

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  1. pitchfork: Idioms

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  1. Pitchfork: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pitchforked as well.)

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noun:  An agricultural 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).
noun:  A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
noun:  (casual, loosely) Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).
noun:  (rare) A tuning fork.
verb:  (transitive) To toss or carry with a pitchfork.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To throw suddenly.
noun:  A surname.

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