pitchforkful
English
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editpitchforkful (plural pitchforkfuls or pitchforksful)
- the amount that a pitchfork holds
- 1889, “The Master-maid”, in Andrew Lang, editor, The Blue Fairy Book, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. and New York, page 121:
- If you clean it out as other people do, ten pitchforksful will come in for every one you throw out.