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Forking   /fˈɔrkɪŋ/   Listen
Forking

noun
1.
The place where something divides into branches.  Synonym: furcation.
2.
The act of branching out or dividing into branches.  Synonyms: branching, fork, ramification.


Fork

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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"Forking" Quotes from Famous Books



... naturally slow, but it is a healthy growth. There is nothing in the nature of dangerous or wild-cat speculation in the advancement of this place, and while there has been no noticeable or rapid advance in the principal business, there has been no falling off at all and these roads are forking as much to-day as they did before the war, while the same three men who were present for the first glad moment are still here to ...
— Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) • Bill Nye
... immortal, helped them on. He laid hold upon Argo's keel and he guided her through the water. The Argonauts saw him beneath the water; his body, from his head down to his waist, was fair and great and like to the body of one of the other immortals. But below his body was like a great fish's, forking this way and that. He moved with fins that were like the horns of the new moon. Triton helped Argo along until they came into the open sea. Then he plunged down into the abyss. The heroes shouted their thanks to him. Then they looked at each other and embraced each other with joy, for ...
— The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived Before Achilles • Padraic Colum
... forking roads, and saw the dairyman by the wayside. But Jim did not halt. Then the dairyman practised the greatest ...
— The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid • Thomas Hardy
... I dont like to be hunted into a corner. Conny is a good little girl, and will make a steady wife. I dont like her mother; but as for herself, she is fond of me; and after all, I did lead her a dance long ago. Besides, old boy, the Earl is forking out handsomely; and as I have some notion of settling down to farm, his dust will come ...
— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw
... is only another spelling of'bough.' But this is not likely. The older meaning of 'bows' was 'shoulders,' and this, it is agreed, is how it became applied to the head of a ship. There is, however, a secondary and more widely used sense of 'grain,' which means the space between forking boughs, and so almost any angular space, like a meadow where two rivers converge. Thus 'grain,' in the naval sense, might easily mean the space enclosed by the planks of a ship where they spring from ...
— Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 - Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. • Julian S. Corbett


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