- pitchfork
[pitchfork 词源字典] - pitchfork: see pike
[pitchfork etymology, pitchfork origin, 英语词源] - 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.
