Fork
[fɔːk] or [fɔrk]
Definition
(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 region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches; 'they took the south fork'; 'he climbed into the crotch of a tree'.
(verb.) shape like a fork; 'She forked her fingers'.
(verb.) place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Branch, division, divarication.
v. n. Branch, divide.
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Definition
n. an instrument with two or more prongs at the end: one of the points or divisions of anything fork-like: the bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains—also Forcque: (pl.) the branches into which a road or river divides also the point of separation.—v.i. to divide into two branches: to shoot into blades as corn.—v.t. to form as a fork: to pitch with a fork: to bale a shaft dry.—n. Fork′-chuck a forked lathe-centre used in wood-turning.—adjs. Forked Fork′y shaped like a fork.—adv. Fork′edly.—ns. Fork′edness Fork′iness; Fork′er; Fork′head the forked end of a rod in a knuckle-joint or the like; Fork′-tail a fish with forked tail: the kite.—Fork out over (slang) to hand or pay over.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a fork, denotes that enemies are working for your displacement. For a woman, this dream denotes unhappy domestic relations, and separation for lovers.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. Formerly the knife was employed for this purpose and by many worthy persons is still thought to have many advantages over the other tool which however they do not altogether reject but use to assist in charging the knife. The immunity of these persons from swift and awful death is one of the most striking proofs of God's mercy to those that hate Him.
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Examples
- At the thought he laid down his knife and fork again, and a flush of anxiety rose to his finely-wrinkled cheek. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I took back Captain Hopkins's knife and fork early in the afternoon, and went home to comfort Mrs. Micawber with an account of my visit. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There's not a fork or a spoon in the collection, said Miss Pross, that I didn't cry over, last night after the box came, till I couldn't see it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In a tree we can distinguish this or that branch, though at the actual fork the two unite and blend together. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Young Freeling was a gentleman, as far as grammar and eating with his fork went; and Fanny proposed our going to Covent Garden together that evening. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And if it was a toasting-fork, you'd go into brass and do yourself no credit. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The Colonel plays a good knife and fork at tiffin and resumes those weapons with great success at dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Now, Joe, knives and forks. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A horrid rattling of knives and forks sounded outside the door, and the footman came in to lay the table for luncheon. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The column from New Bern was attacked on the 8th of March, at Wise's Forks, and driven back with the loss of several hundred prisoners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Tuning forks do not produce strong tones unless mounted on hollow wooden boxes (Fig. 175), whose size and shape are so adjusted that resonance occurs and strengthens the sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And these new means were the hay tedder to stir it, the horse hay-rake, the great hay-forks to load, and the hay-stackers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Bouncers were more delighted still; they dropped their knives and forks with a crash, and burst out together vehemently, O! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They have immense, flat, forked cushions of feet, that make a track in the dust like a pie with a slice cut out of it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Was pitch-forked into the Navy, but has not circumnavigated. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Some of these were so heavy that a forked support had to be driven into the ground, and two men were needed, one to hold and aim, the other to prime and fire. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He asserts that the function of the forked twig in the hands of the water-finder may be to act as an indicator of some material or other mental disturbance within him. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We had passed but a little way beyond our left when the road forked. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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