pitchfork

«pitchfork» in Mova's school dictionary: a farm tool with a long handle and two or three metal… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (pitchfork, pitchforks)

meaning for a pupil

1) A pitchfork is a farm tool with a long handle and two or three metal prongs, used for lifting hay. tree →

2) (informal) «Raining pitchforks» means raining very hard. tree →

sense in the lessons

a farm tool carried by villagers in tales; «raining pitchforks» is a storm image

examples

• The farmers came with rakes, brooms and pitchforks. tree →
• It was so dark he could see nothing, and it was raining pitchforks. tree →
• He lifted the hay with a pitchfork. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pitchfork» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.