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ˈdung-fork
1. A three- or four-pronged fork used to lift or spread dung; a kind of pitchfork.
c1430Lydg. Chorle & Byrde (Roxb.) 13 To a chorle a dongforke in his honde. 1530Palsgr. 214/2 Donge forke, fourche a fian. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 324 A Dung-fork is a Tool of 3 Tines or Pikes, for the better casting of Dung. 1834Brit. Husb. I. x. 254 The manure..so far rotted as to be easily divisible by the dung-fork. 1875Tennyson Q. Mary ii. ii, The reeking dungfork master of the mace!
attrib.1674Flatman To Mr. Austin 9 Our Noddles understand them can No more, than read that dung fork, pothook hand That in Queen's Colledge Library does stand.
2. Entom. The anal fork on which the larvæ of certain coleopterous insects carry their excrement; a fæcifork. |