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  • verb Present participle of pitchfork.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Garden Goddess for Hire 2010

  • And they start pitchforking and using a shovel to deflate this balloon.

    CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2009 2009

  • And they start pitchforking and using a shovel to deflate this balloon.

    CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2009 2009

  • 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

  • They recounted instances of stabbing, hacking, and pitchforking animals with fondness.

    Wolves, Actors, Jihadis 2004

  • They recounted instances of stabbing, hacking, and pitchforking animals with fondness.

    Wolves, Actors, Jihadis 2004

  • 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

  • At the root of all things, pitchforking from the stack, stands — the farmer, moustached, and always upright was he not in the

    The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

  • 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

  • Ken had a glimpse of a giant next him, literally pitchforking a Turk out of the trench, lifting him like a gaffed salmon on the end of his bayonet.

    On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles

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  • 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

  • This is stabbing the (metaphorical) ground randomly until you get the suspect, right?

    October 14, 2007