dung-fork

Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns is nothing but a dung-fork which he is carrying on his back, and whose teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his head.

Les Miserables 2008

“Hold your jaw,” said Goarly as he slowly shouldered the dung-fork to take it back to his work.

The American Senator 2004

In one end of his mushroom cellar he has a very large, deep, open box, half filled with steaming fresh horse-droppings, and once or twice a day he tosses these over with a dung-fork, in order to raise a

Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer

But as the bully grew stronger, and was no longer at the mercy of his slave, his old brutality comes back, and seizing an opportunity to avenge the beating which Abers had given him, struck at Peter with a dung-fork, and pinned him to the floor.

Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves. 1911

He had physical strength, and after attempting to chop, hay, and milk, he was given a dung-fork and set to work at a pile of manure.

Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902

God, but will bear his garter or his worsted-braid, his cocked or cockaded hat, his sword or his dung-fork up to the very sanctuary rails -- lest, forsooth, by leaving them at home he should either seem so poor as to be without them, or so rich as to be able to discard them.

The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892

He had physical strength, and after attempting to chop, hay, and milk, he was given a dung-fork and set to work at a pile of manure.

Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry 1892

Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns is nothing but a dung-fork which he is carrying on his back, and whose teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his head.

Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

On one of the latter, of over a thousand acres, a friend told me he had seen the negroes moving long, strawy manure with shovels, and upon inquiry found there was not a dung-fork on the place.

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856

And what weapon could I use, composing-stick or dung-fork, upon an anonymous correspondent of the hawkers 'and newsboys'

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855