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Definitions for: Fork
[n] the act of branching out or dividing into branches
[n] cutlery used for serving and eating food
[n] an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
[n] the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
[n] a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches"; "they took the south fork"
[v] shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers"
[v] divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
[v] place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy chess pieces
[v] lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay"
Webster (1913) Definition: Fork (f[^o]rj), n. [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf.
Fourch['e], 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
from 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. --Shak.
A thunderbolt with three forks. --Addison.
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.] --Bp. Butler.
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 a road, the branches into which
it divides, or which come together to form it; the place
where separation or union takes place.
Fork, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Forked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Forking.]
1. To shoot into blades, as corn.
The corn beginneth to fork. --Mortimer.
2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree,
or a stream forks.
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. --Prof.
Wilson.
To fork over or out, to hand or pay over, as money.
[Slang] --G. Eliot.
Synonyms: branch, branch, branching, crotch, forking, furcate, leg, pitchfork, ramification, ramification, ramify, separate
See Also: aggress, angle, arborise, arborize, attack, bifurcate, bifurcation, bifurcation, body, brachium, branch out, broaden, carving fork, cutlery, divarication, diverge, diversify, division, eating utensil, fibrillation, forking, form, furcation, hayfork, lift, organic structure, physical structure, prong, salad fork, shape, subfigure, tablefork, tine, toasting fork, tool, trifurcate, trifurcation, twig
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