单词 | pikefork |
释义 | pikeforkn. Now chiefly English regional (northern). = pitchfork n.1 Also: a pronged implement for stoking fire. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > fork > pitch-fork pikeforkc1275 shakefork1338 pickfork1349 pitchfork1364 pikea1398 bicornec1420 hay-fork1552 shed-fork1559 straw-fork1573 pikel1602 sheppeck1602 corn-pike1611 wain-forka1642 pick1777 pickle1847 peak1892 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 10777 Wið heore pic-forcken [c1300 pic-forken] heo ualden heom to grunden. 1313 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 82 [1 iron for] j pycforke jd. qu'. 1446 Inventory in H. Fishwick Hist. Parish Lytham (1907) 82 (MED) j fyre pan, j paire tanges, j long pykefork. 1454 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 173 (MED) Willyam Joly..a long byll, a pikeforke. 1485 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 246 Paid..to a smyth for makyng of a grete pykefork..þat was broken with þe ice. ij d. a1600 Floddan Field (1664) ii. 11 Some made long pikes and lances light, Some Pike-forks for to joyn and thrust. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. Epil. sig. K3 One of the Horse-keepers..did..belabour him with a Pikefork. 1881 W. Westall Old Factory II. ii. 14 Chaps..as I wouldn't touch with a pikefork. 1962 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. i. 102 Q[uestion]. What do you call a fork with two prongs?.. [Lancashire] Pike-fork. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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