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noun
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pitchforks, Northern U.S. beggar's-lice, especially the achenes of Spanish needles.
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Pitchfork
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| to run away hurriedly; flee. |
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pitchfork
1364, altered (by influence of M.E. pichen "to throw, thrust") from M.E. pic-forken, from pik (see pike (2)). The verb is attested from 1837.
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