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pitchfork (n.)
mid-14c., altered (by influence of
pichen
"to throw, thrust;" see
pitch
(v.1)) from Middle English
pic-forken
(c. 1200), from
pik
(see
pike
(n.4)) +
fork
(n.). The verb is attested from 1837.