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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



... blacksmith's out, and won't be back for another hour. His boy's there, but he's a big enough lunkhead to try bailin' out a dory with a fork, and that buggy axle is bent so it's simply got to be fixed. I'd no more go home to Ketury with that buggy as 'tis than I'd—Oh! my ...
— Cy Whittaker's Place • Joseph C. Lincoln
... the Sao Lourenco and the Paraguay is a day's journey above Corumba. From Corumba there is a regular service by shallow steamers to Cuyaba, at the head of one fork, and to Sao Luis de Caceres, at the head of the other. The steamers are not powerful and the voyage to each little city takes a week. There are other forks that are navigable. Above Cuyaba and Caceres launches go up-stream for several days' journey, except during the dryest parts of the season. ...
— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt
... scraping a baking board and rolling-pin, and trimming the edges of pie tins, and turning with a whirl to open the oven door, stooping to dip up spoonfuls of gravy only to pour the rich brown liquid over the meat again. There were things on top of the stove that required sticking into with a fork, and other things that demanded tasting and stirring with a spoon. A neighbor came in to borrow a cup of molasses, and Emma urged upon her one of her freshly baked cookies. And there was a ring at the front-door bell, ...
— Roast Beef, Medium • Edna Ferber
... ate. Rigault enumerated the list of people he had sent to the Conciergerie and to Mazas, and thought with consternation that soon there would be no one left for him to arrest. Suddenly he stopped his fork on its way to his mouth, and his face assumed a most doleful expression.—"What's the matter?" cried Dacosta, alarmed.—"Ah!" said Rigault, tears choking his utterance, "Papa is not in Paris."—"Well, and ...
— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton
... the march of the soldiers. He did not attack; but when he saw them pushing on, and finally making camp to locate another fort, fifty miles northwest of Reno, on Piney Fork of Lodge-pole Creek, in the Big Horn Mountains of northern Wyoming, he again sent a message, by a party of soldiers whom ...
— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin


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