Usually means: Tool with long handle, tines.
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  1. pitchforks: Merriam-Webster
  2. pitchforks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pitchforks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pitchfork's, Pitchforks, pitchforks: Wordnik
  5. pitchforks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pitchforks: Wiktionary
  7. pitchforks: Dictionary.com
  8. pitchforks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. pitchforks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pitchforks: Encyclopedia

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  1. pitchforks: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pitchfork as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Pitchfork)

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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