hayfork

[ hey-fawrk ]

/ ˈheɪˌfɔrk /

a forklike tool for pitching hay.

a machine for loading or unloading hay.

Origin of hayfork

First recorded in 1545–55; hay + fork

Then the father picked up a hayfork and beat his son out of the house.

English Fairy Tales |Flora Annie Steel
Meanwhile, the hayfork and the blood-stained knife were impounded.

The Revellers |Louis Tracy
He goes to an outhouse and fetches a hayfork and places it at the other side of the visitor.

Best Stories of the 1914 European War |Various
They were long and lean and finicky-fingered hands, the sort that could span an octave much better than they could hold a hayfork.

The Prairie Mother |Arthur Stringer

Turning instantly upon the driver, he smote him with his hayfork, knocking him from his horse, and laying the skull bare.

The Secret Service. |Albert D. Richardson

hayfork

/ (ˈheɪˌfɔːk) /

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