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单词 muck-fork
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muck-forkn.

Brit. /ˈmʌkfɔːk/, U.S. /ˈməkˌfɔrk/
Forms: see muck n.1 and fork n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: muck n.1, fork n.
Etymology: < muck n.1 + fork n.With use in quot. 1889 compare to rain pitchforks at pitchfork n.1 2.
A large fork for lifting or spreading dung; = dung fork n. 1a. Also in recent use: a tractor attachment which performs the same function.
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c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 16* Furche fymere, Mouke-forke.
1411 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 86 (MED) j mucforke, ij d.
1454 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 150 ij Mukforkez.
a1475 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 86 (MED) Mockeforccus.
a1500 (?a1410) J. Lydgate Churl & Bird (Lansd.) 264 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 479 (MED) The eyr for fowlis..is covenable..And to a cherl, a mookfork in his honde.
c1553 Inventory J. Neville in Midland Counties Hist. Collector (1855) 1 234 Itm Spads and mukforks xij d.
1583 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 172 Ane schoill, ane muk fork.
1676 in G. F. Dow Probate Rec. Essex County, Mass. (1920) III. 115 5 forks & a muck forke, 5s.
1789 Suffolk Inventory in Notes & Queries (1947) 27 Dec. 558/2 4 muck forks.
1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 151 Like the heft o' a muck fork, frae a midden-stead.
1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 118 A common muck-fork.
1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) 359 To ‘rain muck-ferks tines doon'ards’, or, ‘to raain three-tined muck-ferks’, are superlatives of ‘to rain cats and dogs’.
1902 T. W. H. Crosland To Sir William Harcourt in Outlook Odes 90 And by and by cometh the simple, rural Rosebery, Armed cap-à-pied with a muck-fork.
1995 Farmers Weekly 21 July 109 (advt.) Manitou 425 maniscopic, 1985, 3,400 hours c/w pallet tines, grain bucket and muck forks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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