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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



... fun, though I have seen better candy. When it was finally finished, and ourselves and the kitchen and the door-knobs all thoroughly sticky, we organized a procession and still in our caps and aprons, each carrying a big fork or spoon or frying pan, we marched through the empty corridors to the officers' parlour, where half-a-dozen professors and instructors were passing a tranquil evening. We serenaded them with college songs and offered refreshments. They accepted politely but dubiously. We left them ...
— Daddy-Long-Legs • Jean Webster
... shown. Now, in an arrangement of this kind, however the arms or the wheels are turned, lines on the wheels, if ever parallel, will always be so. If, therefore, the wheel at one end is so supported that its rotation is equal to that of AB, while the wheel at the other end is carried by the fork which supports F, then the plane of F, if ever parallel to AB, will always be so. Therefore, when A is made to trace any given curve, F will draw a curve whose ascent is (1/K) f y dx, and this, multiplied by K, is the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various
... fork, his face fairly ablaze, "What—what could make you think that, Rosie? No, no, I—don't belong to any organization that acknowledges ...
— Elsie's Motherhood • Martha Finley
... for me to have done washing, and on my way back. Then they gave me breakfast—hot bread and milk, and fried flesh of something between mutton and venison. Their ways of cooking and eating were European, though they had only a skewer for a fork, and a sort of butcher's knife to cut with. The more I looked at everything in the house, the more I was struck with its quasi-European character; and had the walls only been pasted over with extracts from the Illustrated London News and Punch, I ...
— Erewhon • Samuel Butler
... asked Pina, picking up a small leaf of lettuce on her two-pronged iron fork; for she ate delicately, and her fine ...
— Stradella • F(rancis) Marion Crawford


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