dung fork

noun

dung fork

noun
1

A manure fork.

  • The boy happened to be in the cow-house when this happened, and when he saw the Nis's leg hanging down, he took up a dung fork, and gave him with it a smart rap on the leg.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 146:

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