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The Meaning of fork
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(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.
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(n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
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(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.
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(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.
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(n.) The gibbet.
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(v. i.) To shoot into blades, as corn.
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(v. i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
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(v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
Synonyms
branching
,
ramification
,
forking
,
crotch
,
crotch
,
pitchfork
,
branch
,
ramify
,
furcate
,
separate
Rhymes
bjork
,
borck
,
bork
,
cork
,
dorch
,
goerke
,
horch
,
lorch
,
moerke
,
new-york
,
nork
,
pitchfork
,
pork
,
roark
,
roarke
,
rork
,
rorke
,
schork
,
schwark
,
slorc
,
storck
,
stork
,
torque
,
uncork
,
wark
,
york
,
yorke