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Definition of Pitchforked
1. pitchfork [v] - See also: pitchfork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitchforked
Literary usage of Pitchforked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wrongs and Rights of a Traveller: By Boat--by Stage--by Rail by Robert Vashon Rogers (1875)
"Major vis—Exposure and death—Wholly disabled— What can be recovered — Heavy
weights—Stumbling—pitchforked — Change of business—Lost beneath the dancing ..."
2. Down North and Up Along by Margaret Warner Morley, Morley, Margaret Warner, 1858-1923 (1900)
"Here they are pitchforked to the wooden cradle in which they are weighed. From the
cradle they are once more pitchforked into a great quivering heap on the ..."
3. Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Andrew Lang (1910)
"Scott certainly did not compose these lines; and he could not have pitchforked
them into Jamie Telfer, either by accident or design. ..."
4. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"The emigrants were simply pitchforked on to the shores of Canada and the United
... The people so pitchforked were the ' refuse of the Irish population. ..."
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