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Fork (f&ô;rk), n. [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. Fourché, Furcate.] 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.
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2. Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
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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.
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Let it fall . . . though the fork invade
The region of my heart.
Shak.
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A thunderbolt with three forks.
Addison.
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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.
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5. The gibbet. [Obs.] Bp. Butler.
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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. Ure. -- 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.
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Fork, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Forked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forking.] 1. To shoot into blades, as corn.
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The corn beginneth to fork.
Mortimer.
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2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
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Fork, 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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Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart.
Prof. Wilson.
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To fork over To fork out, to hand or pay over, as money; to cough up. [Slang] G. Eliot.
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