pitchforked

Such men, where all else failed, could get themselves admitted into some smaller religious house by the interest of the patron; sometimes bringing in a trifling addition to the common property, sometimes simply 'pitchforked' into a vacancy, it is difficult to say how.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

Here in England, the country's finest young creative midfielder since Paul Scholes or Paul Gascoigne, Jack Wilshere, is being pitchforked back to a developmental level he has already passed through, purely so Stuart Pearce's Under-21s can look good at the junior European Championship which starts in Denmark on 11 June.

An overworked Jack Wilshere needs a break, not more games 2011

Thus, after a few scant weeks of training, Monk Eastman and the New Yorkers were abruptly pitchforked into the great final push of the conflict — an attack on Germany's Hindenburg Line.

A Gangster Goes to War Winston Groom 2010

The people of Navarre around the 14th century pitchforked, chased and killed the Gypsies (Rom), itinerant wanderers who were different and were blamed for the plague.

How Witch Hunts Came to Be « Colleen Anderson 2009

When I say the chicken coop is clean, that does not mean clean as in Mr. Clean and Scrubbing Bubbles clean, but it means that as much shtuff as is possible to be pitchforked and scooped up with a shovel has been removed from the dirt floor.

Shoveling out.....the coop Gumbo Lily 2010

When I say the chicken coop is clean, that does not mean clean as in Mr. Clean and Scrubbing Bubbles clean, but it means that as much shtuff as is possible to be pitchforked and scooped up with a shovel has been removed from the dirt floor.

Archive 2010-03-01 Gumbo Lily 2010

When the Thracian slave Spartacus fights in the arena, vast crowns of blood fan suddenly from head wounds, arms are scythed off, a man bereft of legs is pitchforked in the back, and blood spots spatter the camera lens.

John Hannah: 'I play a devious, lying, cheating, ambitious mother******. It's great!' 2010

On the other side of the window, lightning pitchforked down through the sky and thunder clamored like it was stomping on the roof.

Crescendo Becca Fitzpatrick 2010

On the other side of the window, lightning pitchforked down through the sky and thunder clamored like it was stomping on the roof.

Crescendo Becca Fitzpatrick 2010

The guys broke open about 5 big round bales and then pitchforked the straw up into our old square baling machine.

Archive 2009-02-01 Gumbo Lily 2009