shakeforkn.
a. A wooden fork with two tines or prongs used by threshers to shake and remove the straw from the grain; also, a pitchfork. Now dialect.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > threshing > thresher's fork
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1338 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 200 It. 8 rastra cum schakforkes, pr. 12d.
1483 Cath. Angl. 332/2 A Schake forke, pastinatum.
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. iii. vii. 66 So slender wast with such an Abbots loyne,..Like a broad shak-forke with a slender steale.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice v. 15 You shall take a shakeforke..and with it you shall shake vp..all the horses dung, and wet litter.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 350 Shack-fork (that is, shake-fork), a wooden fork,..generally made of a forked ozier; the tines or branches about two feet long, and one foot wide at the points.
1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 297 The swaths are gathered into shocks with a shack-fork.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Shackfork, a wooden fork for lifting the thrashed straw... ‘His clothes look as if they were flung on to his back with a shackfork.’
b. Scottish. Heraldry. (See quots.)
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind > charge representing a pallium > specific
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1680 G. Mackenzie Sci. Herauldry xi. 33 This is called a Shak-fork with us, and should not touch the corners of the Escutcheon.
1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Shake-Fork, is in form like the Pall, but doth not touch the top of the shield, and is pointed at each end.
1894 J. Macintosh Ayrshire Nights' Entertainm. xv. 286 [Stewarton Ch.] Over the..doorway..is a rather long window-like compartment, in which the shake-fork forms, as it were, the mullion.
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