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# pitchfork

«pitchfork» in Mova's school dictionary: **a farm tool with a long handle and two or three metal…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (pitchfork, pitchforks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pitchfork is a farm tool with a long handle and two or three metal prongs, used for lifting hay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitchfork/#m1)

2) (informal) «Raining pitchforks» means raining very hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitchfork/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a farm tool carried by villagers in tales; «raining pitchforks» is a storm image

### examples

- The farmers came with rakes, brooms and pitchforks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitchfork/#x1)
- It was so dark he could see nothing, and it was raining pitchforks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitchfork/#x2)
- He lifted the hay with a pitchfork. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitchfork/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pitchfork» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitchfork/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.