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- verb Present participle of
pitchfork .
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Examples
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We take turns standing on the truckload of mulch, pitchforking the barrows full, and pushing them up the long, steep driveway, around to the back of the house, through the trees, to dump and spread among a stand of white pines.
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And they start pitchforking and using a shovel to deflate this balloon.
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We needed some excitement in the plunging of this so-called republican majority that rove architected so masterfully. it didn't help that the sex scandals of congressional district FL-16 was lame this cycle. so he slept with ugly women staffers and now his wife is leaving him. big deal. that is so newt. so 90's. and elliot spitzer was a million years ago. so pitchforking on Michele Bachmann will just have to do.
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And they start pitchforking and using a shovel to deflate this balloon.
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Then, in August, a maintenance worker who was pitchforking trash in the city landfill discovered the remains of a body.
Their Dogs Came With Them Helena María Viramontes 2007
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They recounted instances of stabbing, hacking, and pitchforking animals with fondness.
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They recounted instances of stabbing, hacking, and pitchforking animals with fondness.
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And then there are the ones that are a bit of a stretch: Weedwhacking, pitchforking, brooming (I kid you not, I heard that term used more than once.)
spectre12 Diary Entry spectre12 2005
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At the root of all things, pitchforking from the stack, stands — the farmer, moustached, and always upright was he not in the
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The center of the altar was evidently a deep hollow cauldron, into which a score of men, costumed as satyrs, were pitchforking Bibles.
The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson
edwardvielmetti commented on the word pitchforking
I'll definitely be personally following up with the organizers. I'm absolutely against any pitchforking -- and want to make sure that we, as the BarCamp community, can provide an example for how best to deal with issues where use of the BarCamp mark is contested. -- factoryjoe, Digg
October 14, 2007
yarb commented on the word pitchforking
This is stabbing the (metaphorical) ground randomly until you get the suspect, right?
October 14, 2007