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cutlery used for serving and eating food

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

shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers"

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

cutlery used for serving and eating food

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

shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers"

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

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

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.

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.

The gibbet.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The gibbet.

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

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

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.

An instrument with two or more prongs intended for picking up or holding something; anything resembling a fork; the place of division at the meeting of two roads or rivers.

To raise, throw, or dig with a pronged tool.

To branch off.

An instrument with two or more prongs at the end: one of the points or divisions of anything fork-like: the bifurcated part of the human frame, the legs. "Lord Cardigan had so good a stature that, although somewhat long in the fork, he yet sat rather tall in the saddle."-Kinglake: in pl. the branches into which a road or river divides, also the point of separation.

To divide into two branches, as a road or tree: to shoot into blades, as corn.

To form as a fork: to pitch with a fork.

Instrument with prongs; division into branches; one of the branches so formed.

To take up or pitch with a fork.

To lift, toss, or dig with a fork; diverge; divide.

A device consisting of a handle and tines or prongs; also, anything of like shape or use.

An instrument terminating in two or more prongs, and used for various purposes; anything that branches like a fork, as a table-fork, pitch-fork, &c.; the branch caused by the meeting of two roads or two rivers.

To raise or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig and break ground with a fork; to make sharp: to point.

To shoot into blades, as corn; to divide into two branches.

An instrument having two or more prongs; anything like a fork.

To raise or work with a fork; to shoot or divide into blades or branches.

See bifurcation.

An instrument having two slender, slightly divergent blades.

n. [Anglo-Saxon, Latin] An instrument with two or more prongs or tines;—any thing like a fork in shape; also, one of the parts into which anything is divided; a prong; a point; an arm or branch of a river.

An instrument divided at the end into two or more points or prongs; a point.