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[Fork]

An eating utensil with several points or prongs is called a fork. If you aren't skilled at using chopsticks, you can ask the waiter at the Chinese restaurant to bring you a fork.

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An instrument consisting 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 from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

Noun
the act of branching out or dividing into branches

Noun
cutlery used for serving and eating food

Noun
an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs

Noun
the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk

Noun
a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches"; "they took the south fork"

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Verb
shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers"

Verb
divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"

Verb
place under attack with one''s own pieces, of two enemy pieces

Verb
lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay"

n.
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 from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

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

n.
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.

n.
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.

n.
The gibbet.

v. i.
To shoot into blades, as corn.

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

v. t.
To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

Fork

Fork , n. [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. Fourch, Furcate.] 1. An instrument consisting 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 from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. 2. Anything furcate or like of 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.] Bp. Butler. 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. Ure. -- The forks of a river ∨ a road, the branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place.

Fork

Fork, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Forked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Forking.] 1. To shoot into blades, as corn.

The corn beginneth to fork. Mortimer. 1 2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
Fork
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 ∨ out, to hand or pay over, as money. [Slang]

An instrument consisting 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 from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

To shoot into blades, as corn.

To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

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Usage Examples

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but if you're asked to be in a wedding, you're gonna have to fork over some cash.

When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.