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“It’s kind of like snow,” said Wiley McFarland, 83, a longtime rancher and community leader who wearily recalls pitchforking thousands of the plants out of his irrigation ditches and cattle corrals during particularly bad years.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2011

When he drew near they put more spirit into their pitchforking.

From Fort Amity by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I've come to apologize," said the Duchess, "for pitchforking a stranger into your room like this; but I'm sorry for the woman.

From Barnaby A Novel by Ramsay, R.