A farm tool with a long handle and two or more sharp metal prongs, used for lifting hay or straw.
a nineteenth-century wooden hay fork
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Prickly pear was gathered, held over a fire on hay forks to burn off the prickles, then chopped up.
Fishermen used to supply the canneries by rowing out from the cannery and filling their boats with fish using hay forks.
According to the company history, the hay fork, a labor-saving device that was new to the market, gained acceptance by farmers after a contest took place.
The 1875 and 1880 catalogues show that the line was increased considerably in those few years, especially in the variety of chopping axes, scythes, and hay forks.
They lighted their way with a fired sod of turf held on a hay fork.
Other lightning victims had been holding metal objects such as golf clubs, fishing rods, hay forks, or umbrellas.
When the brothers moved to Muncy, the company had 1,400 hay forks on order.
They accordingly withdrew for a few moments to procure whatever they could lay their hands on in the form of weapons—staves, pikes, hay forks, sickles, and even spades.
There are all manner of lesser imps and demons, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork.
Local lore has it that the fish were once so plentiful that it was possible to skewer them with hay forks.