pitchfork

1. An agricultural hand tool comprising a fork with sparse, light tines, attached to a long handle, used for pitching hay (especially loose hay) high up onto a stack (as on a wagon or haystack, or into a haymow).
2. A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
3. Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers). (informal)
4. An angry mob; the power or effects of such a mob. (figuratively) · The city council was facing the pitchforks once the public had realized what the new ordinance entailed.

Plural pitchforks