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
A typical wooden hayfork of the 19th century.
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 Schlebecker, John T.
This steel trolley carrier supported a one-horse hayfork.
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 Schlebecker, John T.
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.
A pulley attached to the trolley carrier lifted and lowered the hayfork.
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 Schlebecker, John T.
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