Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fork, usually with four flat prongs, used for lifting and distributing manure.
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Examples
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Billy dropped his manure-fork as soon as Cully had moved on again, and dodging behind the fence, followed him toward the post-office, hoping to hit the singer with a stone.
Tom Grogan Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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In former years he had been a frequent inmate of the county prison, where the bruises and cuts received in the brawl on whose account he was incarcerated had time to heal; two years before he had been in jail three months because he had used a manure-fork to prevent a tax-collector from seizing his bed, and the beautiful Panna had then gone to the capital once or twice a week to carry him cheese, wine, bread, and underclothing, and otherwise make his situation easier, so far as she could.
How Women Love (Soul Analysis) Max Simon Nordau 1886
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