Definition of fork

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Fork (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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Trisuls :: Trisuls (n.) Something having three forks or prongs, as a trident..
Forcipal :: Forcipal (a.) Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.
Anchored :: Anchored (a.) Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue..
Wishbone :: Wishbone (n.) The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum..
Grain :: Grain (n.) A tine, prong, or fork..
Trisulcate :: Trisulcate (a.) Having three furrows, forks, or prongs; having three grooves or sulci; three-grooved..
Earthfork :: Earthfork (n.) A pronged fork for turning up the earth.
Divaricate :: Divaricate (a.) Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc..
Forkerve :: Forkerve (v. t.) See Forcarve, v. t..
Hayfork :: Hayfork (n.) A fork for pitching and tedding hay.
Prong :: Prong (n.) The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs..
Tine :: Tine (n.) A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler..
Two-forked :: Two-forked (a.) Divided into two parts, somewhat after the manner of a fork; dichotomous..
Forkiness :: Forkiness (n.) The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner.
Dichotomy :: Dichotomy (n.) The place where a stem or vein is forked.
Forktail :: Forktail (n.) A salmon in its fourth year's growth.
Forficate :: Forficate (a.) Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds..
Tooth :: Tooth (n.) Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card..
Biconjugate :: Biconjugate (a.) Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice..
Crotch :: Crotch (n.) The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree..
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