Definition of Pitchforked

1. Verb. (past of pitchfork) ¹

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Definition of Pitchforked

1. pitchfork [v] - See also: pitchfork

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitchforked

pitcher's count
pitcher's mound
pitcher-plant family
pitcher plant
pitcher sage
pitcherful
pitcherfuls
pitchers
pitchersful
pitches
pitches a tent
pitchfest
pitchfests
pitchfork
pitchforked (current term)
pitchforking
pitchforklike
pitchforks
pitchier
pitchiest
pitchily
pitchiness
pitching
pitching a tent
pitching change
pitching coach
pitching wedge
pitching wedges
pitchings

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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