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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



... 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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