noun
Etymology
Origin of hayfork
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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
A double-harpoon hayfork and pulley for lifting hay from a wagon to a barn hayloft.
From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by John T. Schlebecker
S. E. Harris patented this double-harpoon, iron hayfork in 1867.
From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by John T. Schlebecker
She tossed her hayfork into the empty rack and climbed in after it.
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
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 Thomas Cooper
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