pitchfork

1. An agricultural hand tool comprising a fork with sparse, light tines, attached to a long handle, used for pitching hay (especially loose hay) high up onto a stack (as on a wagon or haystack, or into a haymow).

   Heugabel, Mistgabel

   ви́лыvíly

   ви́лаvýla, ґа́бліgábli, га́бліhábli

   a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay

2. A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.

3. (broadly, informal)Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).

4. (figuratively, in the plural, metonymically)An angry mob; the power or effects of such a mob.

   The city council was facing the pitchforks once the public had realized what the new ordinance entailed.

5. (rare)A tuning fork.

1. Stay calm and sharpen pitchforks.

   Зберігайте спокій і гостріть вила.

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2. Get the pitchforks.

   Несіть вила!

   deHolt die Forken!

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3. Stay calm and sharpen your pitchforks.

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4. The peasantry revolted wielding pitchforks and clubs.

   ruКрестьяне восстали, взяв в руки вилы и дубинки.

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5. Lorenzo was sharpening the pitchfork with something.

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