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Definition of Pitchforking
1. pitchfork [v] - See also: pitchfork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitchforking
Literary usage of Pitchforking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1842)
"... on an emergency, in fact control the legislative action of the upper house by
a wholesale and vigorous act of " pitchforking;" but this it would hardly ..."
2. Biennial Report by Oregon Board of Horticulture (1905)
"pitchforking all sorts of food indiscriminately into the stomach and then topping
off with one or more varieties of fruit burled in sugar and possibly ..."
3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"... our conception of sport, but we saw some natives tossing them out of a stream
north of Alberni as unconcernedly as though they were pitchforking hay. ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"I saw many women, seventy and even eighty years old, mowing and binding in the
fields, and pitchforking the-loads into the wagons." I was in Austria later, ..."
5. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1894)
"I 'm afraid he 'll be pitchforking at it again, and we shall have another blast.
That letter ought never to have been printed. That editor deserves the ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1872)
"In one place I saw half-a-dozen stalwart girls on a dung-heap loading a cart with
manure, and pitchforking it in with a strength that many men might have ..."
7. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"I am not a Martin Tupper who said, when he had been flung on the accustomed heap
after much pitchforking, that he would rather be an object of abuse than ..."
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