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Fork   /fɔrk/   Listen
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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"Fork" Quotes from Famous Books



... when a shriek resounded through the house, and, barely saving the Arcadian in her start, she rushed downstairs. James, in his shirt-sleeves, was already on his way to the kitchen. There Kitty was found, too much frightened, to run away, making lunges with the toasting-fork at a black-bearded figure, who held in his arms Charlotte Arnold, in a fit of the almost forgotten hysterics. The workhouse girl shrieked for the police; Jane was at Master Oliver's door, prepared for flight or defence; Isabel stood on the stairs, with ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. II) • Charlotte M. Yonge
... be extending, their borders should be trimmed with a sharp spade pushed vertically full depth into the soil and all the earth beyond the clump thus restricted should be shaken out with a garden fork and the cut pieces of mint removed. Further, the forked-over ground should be hoed every week during the remainder of the season, ...
— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains
... earth can I do to those odious people next door who made such an absurd fuss when Ping Yang bit their youngest child?' Then you'd get up awfully early on the allotted day and climb over into their garden and dig for truffles on their tennis court with a good gardening fork, choosing, of course, that part of the court that was screened from observation by the laurel bushes. You wouldn't find any truffles but you would find a great peace, such as no amount of present- ...
— Beasts and Super-Beasts • Saki
... her father, dropping his knife and fork, and looking at her in astonishment. "Go to all the expense of furnishing a house, when we do not expect to stay here much more than a year? We should hardly be settled before we ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
... a sight which has never left me, but one which gave wings to my feet that night and sent me flying on till a fork in the road brought me to a standstill. To the left lay the hotel. I could see its windows glimmering with faint lights, while, away to the right, there broke upon me from the hillside a solitary sparkle; but this sparkle came from the house where, but for the letter hidden in my heart, I should ...
— The Mayor's Wife • Anna Katharine Green


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