Description
Africa, Ethiopia, Konso a crude wooden pitchfork for threshing teff. #2
The word pitchfork comes from the “toss or throw” meaning of pitch, plus fork, from the Old English forca, “forked instrument or weapon.”
A pitchfork is an agricultural tool with a long handle and two to five tines used to lift and pitch or throw loose material, such as hay, straw, manure, or leaves. The term is also applied colloquially, but inaccurately, to the garden fork.