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hayfork

American  
[hay-fawrk] / ˈheɪˌfɔrk /

noun

  1. a forklike tool for pitching hay.

  2. a machine for loading or unloading hay.


hayfork British  
/ ˈheɪˌfɔːk /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of hayfork

First recorded in 1545–55; hay + fork


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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

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 John T. Schlebecker

There was no hayfork operated by machinery in those days.

From Rural Life and the Rural School by Joseph Kennedy

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

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 John T. Schlebecker

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