Definition of fork

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Fork (n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork..

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Tang :: Tang (n.) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle..
Clothespin :: Clothespin (n.) A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line..
Earthfork :: Earthfork (n.) A pronged fork for turning up the earth.
Hairpin :: Hairpin (n.) A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women..
Y :: Y (n.) A forked or bifurcated pipe fitting.
Shakefork :: Shakefork (n.) A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork.
Sheartail :: Sheartail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.
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..
Merrythought :: Merrythought (n.) The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.
Forcipal :: Forcipal (a.) Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.
Sylphid :: Sylph (n.) Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus)..
Y :: Y (n.) One of the forked holders for supporting the telescope of a leveling instrument, or the axis of a theodolite; a wye..
Interrupter :: Interrupter (n.) A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit; a vibrating spring or tuning fork, arranged to make and break a circuit at rapidly recurring intervals, by the action of the current itself..
Linstock :: Linstock (n.) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon..
Fork :: Fork (n.) The gibbet.
Crotched :: Crotched (a.) Having a crotch; forked.
Forking :: Forking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of For.
Forkless :: Forkless (a.) Having no fork.
Fork :: Fork (v. i.) To shoot into blades, as corn..
Forked :: Forked (a.) Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
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