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hayfork

Definitions

noun

  1. a long-handled fork for turning or lifting hay

Examples

A scholar from Chelm who finds a hayfork in the road is likely to conclude it's a giant's menorah.

On the wall behind the three people there is a hayfork and rake.

With the hayfork carefully lowered down onto the wagon, the fork would be closed to grasp a load of hay.

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pike

Definitions

noun

  1. any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
  2. a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
  3. a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
  4. highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
  5. medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet

Examples

My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.

South Korea is seeing a spike in the price of pork belly, with 10000 won (RMB52) per kg, Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday.

A big Chinaman, remarkably evil-looking, with his head swathed in a yellow silk handkerchief and face badly pock-marked, planted a pike-pole on the

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