pitchfork

A large, long-handled fork with sharp, widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay.

To lift or toss with or as if with a pitchfork.

To lift or throw with a pitchfork.

To put, throw, or thrust suddenly or abruptly into any position.

A fork for lifting and pitching hay or the like.

A tuning-fork.

plural Either Bidens cernua, the nodding bur-marigold, or B. frondosa, the black beggar-ticks: so called from the two prong-like awns of the adhesive achenes. See devil’s-pitchforks.

A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.

To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.

An agricultural tool comprising a fork attached to a long handle used for pitching hay or bales of hay high up onto a haystack.