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ˈpickfork Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 3 pic-, 5 pykk-, pik-, pyke-, 5–6 pyk-, 6 picke-, 6 (9 dial.) pike-, pick-fork.
[Origin of the first element obscure: occurring as pic, pik, pyke, it appears to be identical with pick n.1, pike n.1, as if ‘a fork with pikes or sharp points’; but the word, with its variant pitchfork, seems to have been at length associated with the vb. pick2, pitch1, from the use of the implement in pitching sheaves, etc.]
= pitchfork. (The sense in the quot. from Layamon is doubtful.)
c1205Lay. 21597 Wið heore pic-forcken, Heo ualden heom to grunde. 1410in Rogers Agric. & Prices III. 546/2, 3 pyk forkes. c1440Promp. Parv. 397/1 Pykkforke, merga. 1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 95 The men of the village cam out..with flaylis and pikforkes. 1485Nottingham Rec. III. 246 Paid..to a smyth for makyng of a grete pykefork..þat was broken with þe ice. ij d. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §25 If the grasse be very thycke, it wolde be shaken with handes, or with a short pykforke. 1560Bible (Genev.) 1 Sam. xiii. 21 Yet they had a file for the shares, and for the mattockes, and for the pickeforkes [1535 Coverd. forckes, 1539 (Great) dong forckes] & for the axes. 1589Fleming Virg. Georg. ii. 31 Clods must alwaies broken be with pick⁓forks turnd therein. a1600Flodden F. ii. (1664) 11 Some made long pikes and lances light, Some Pike-forks for to joyn and thrust. 1673R. Head Canting Acad. K iij, One of the Horse-keepers..did..belabour him with a Pikefork. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Pick-fork, a hay fork. 1885Westall Old Factory xxi. (E.D.D.), Chaps..as I wouldn't touch with a pikefork. |