subs. (common).—A tuning-fork.
Verb. (colloquial).—To thrust into a position; to toss, or settle carelessly.
1708–10. SWIFT, Polite Conversation, i. She wears her Cloaths as if they were thrown on her with a PITCHFORK.
1879. Nineteenth Century, 277. Your young city curate PITCHFORKED into a rural benefice … is the most forlorn … of all human creatures.
