harpoon fork

English

in this magazine from the year 1907, images 268 and 773 are labelled as harpoon forks

Noun

harpoon fork (plural harpoon forks)

1. (agriculture, historical) A kind of hayfork, consisting of a bar with hinged barbs at one end and a loop for a rope at the other end, used for lifting hay from the load by horse power.

References

• “harpoon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.