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Fork   /fɔrk/   Listen
Fork

noun
1.
Cutlery used for serving and eating food.
2.
The act of branching out or dividing into branches.  Synonyms: branching, forking, ramification.
3.
The region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches.  Synonym: crotch.  "He climbed into the crotch of a tree"
4.
An agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs.
5.
The angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk.  Synonym: crotch.
verb
(past & past part. forked; pres. part. forking)
1.
Lift with a pitchfork.  Synonym: pitchfork.
2.
Place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces.
3.
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.  Synonyms: branch, furcate, ramify, separate.
4.
Shape like a fork.



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"Fork" Quotes from Famous Books



... tool for preparing the soil for root growth is a spade or spading fork (Fig. 49). With this tool properly used we can prepare the soil for a crop ...
— The First Book of Farming • Charles L. Goodrich
... in his ears: "Always a knife and fork, my boy ... any time if you let us know." He stepped down into the little lighted streets, into the town with its cosy security and some scent, even then in the heart of winter, perhaps, from the fruit of its many orchards. The moon, once again an orange feather in the sky, reminded ...
— The Golden Scarecrow • Hugh Walpole
... a famous Indian fighter; one of the earliest of his recorded deeds has to do with an Indian adventure. He and three other men were trapping on Sulphur Fork and Red River, in the great bend of the Cumberland. Moving their camp, they came on recent traces of Indians: deer-carcases and wicker frames for stretching hides. They feared to tarry longer unless they knew something of their foes, and Mansker set forth to explore, and turned towards ...
— The Winning of the West, Volume One - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 • Theodore Roosevelt
... be there shall come in after days—When this Good Spell is spread—some later scribes, Some far-off Pharisees, will take His law,—Written with Love's light fingers on the heart, Not stamped on stone 'mid glare of lightning-fork—Will take, and make its code incorporate; And from its grace write grim phylacteries To deck the head of dressed Authority; And from its golden mysteries forge keys To jingle in ...
— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote
... longing was apparently imposed upon her by the anxious solicitude of her own and her husband's relations. Though suffering from constant nausea and sickness, she had no longings. One day at dinner after the pregnancy had gone on for some months her mother suddenly put down her fork, exclaiming: "I have never asked you what longing you have!" She replied with truth that she had none, her days and her nights being occupied with suffering. "No envie!" said the mother, "such a thing was never heard of. I must speak to your mother-in-law." ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


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