9 letters · 23 points in Scrabble
noun a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay
verb lift with a pitchfork
originFrom Middle English pichfork, pycchefork, pychforke, pikeforke, pikkforke, pic-forcke, equivalent to pitch + fork.
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