fork
/fɔɹk/ noun A2- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- A tuning fork.
- An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- A decision point.
- A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- 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. · a thunderbolt with three forks· this fork of the river dries up during droughts
Plural forks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.
Ring, then, if you please, for a second knife, fork, and plate, and we will dine together.”
Here in the fork
While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,
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