hayfork

American  

[hey-fawrk] / ˈheɪˌfɔrk /

noun

1. a forklike tool for pitching hay.

2. a machine for loading or unloading hay.

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hayfork British  

/ ˈheɪˌfɔːk /

noun

1. a long-handled fork with two long curved prongs, used for moving or turning hay; pitchfork

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Etymology

Origin of hayfork

First recorded in 1545–55; hay + fork

Example Sentences

Being a rustic Irish comedy, the film is a pack of delightful lies: white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies�every one as harmless as the tine of a hayfork.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Being a rustic Irish comedy, the film is a pack of delightful lies: white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies�every one as harmless as the tines of a hayfork.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were long and lean and finicky-fingered hands, the sort that could span an octave much better than they could hold a hayfork.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.

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