noun
Etymology
Origin of hayfork
Example Sentences
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Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen," "Bye and Bye I'm Gonna Lay Down My Heavy Load and other true songs, while the Devil jumps up & down waving at them with a hayfork.
From Time Magazine Archive
And first, of the continued luminous acts and deeds of Clerk Spurr, the notable and notorious "Parson's Clerk," the hero of the hayfork.
From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas
At length, turning his eyes upwards, he saw it writhing and wriggling on one of the prongs of his hayfork, which he was holding up in the air.
From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Barker, Joseph
Wally came with the hayfork out of the stable towards Benedict.
From The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
Down tumbled the old coloured glass from the ancient mullions, rattling on the tomb-stones beneath, and sounding like curses on sacrilege in the ears of the affrighted hero of the gun and the hayfork!
From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas
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