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noun

Fork n.

1.

An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; used for piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

2.

Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

3.

One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. "Let it fall... though the fork invade The region of my heart." "A thunderbolt with three forks."

4.

The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.

5.

The gibbet. (Obs.)

Fork beam (Shipbuilding), a half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur.

Fork chuck (Wood Turning), a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work.

Fork head.

(a)

The barbed head of an arrow.

(b)

The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint.

In fork. (Mining) A mine is said to be in fork, or an engine to "have the water in fork," when all the water is drawn out of the mine.

The forks of a river or The forks of a road, the branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place.

verb

Fork v. t. To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil. "Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart."

To fork over To fork out, to hand or pay over, as money; to cough up. (Slang)

Fork v. i. (past & past part. forked; pres. part. forking)

1.

To shoot into blades, as corn. "The corn beginneth to fork."

2.

To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.

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Etymology of 'Fork'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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