pitchfork

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Pitchwork next to a compost bin

Noun

pitchfork (plural pitchforks)

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

Derived terms

• pitchforkful
• rain pitchforks

Translations

farm tool with tines

• Chamicuro: ashtoli
• Crimean Tatar: senek
• Czech: vidle (cs) f pl
• Danish: høtyv (da) c, fork (da) c
• Dutch: hooivork
• Finnish: hanko, heinähanko
• French: fourche (fr) f
• Galician: forcada (gl) f, galleta (gl) f
• German: Heugabel (de) f, Mistgabel (de) f
• Greek: δίκρανο (el) (díkrano) n, δικράνι (el) (dikráni) n, πιρούνα (el) (piroúna) f
• Hungarian: vasvilla (hu)
• Icelandic: heygaffall m
• Italian: forcone (it)

• Luxembourgish: Mëschtgreef (lb) m
• Macedonian: вила (mk) (víla) f
• Maricopa: chmaly
• Norwegian: fork (no) m, høygaffel (no) m
• O'odham: cuaʼaknakud
• Polish: widły (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: forcado (pt) m, forquilha (pt) f, garfo (pt) m
• Russian: вилы (ru) (víly) pl
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: виле f pl, рачве f pl

  Roman: vile f pl, račve f pl

• Spanish: bieldo (es) m, horca (es) f
• Swedish: högaffel (sv) c, hötjuga (sv) c
• Walloon: fotche (wa) f, fonne (wa) f

Verb

pitchfork (third-person singular simple present pitchforks, present participle pitchforking, simple past and past participle pitchforked)

1. (transitive) To toss or carry with a pitchfork.

See also

• tuning fork

External links

• Pitchfork on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons