Lexic.us

Definition of Fork

1. Noun. Cutlery used for serving and eating food.

2. Verb. Lift with a pitchfork. "Pitchfork hay"

3. Noun. The act of branching out or dividing into branches.

4. Verb. Place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces.

5. Noun. The region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches. "He climbed into the crotch of a tree"

6. Verb. Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork. "The road forks"

7. Noun. An agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs.

8. Verb. Shape like a fork. "She forked her fingers"

9. Noun. The angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk.

Definition of Fork

1. 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 for piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

2. v. i. To shoot into blades, as corn.

3. v. t. To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

Definition of Fork

1. to work with a fork (a pronged implement) [v -ED, -ING, -S] : FORKEDLY [adv]

Medical Definition of Fork

1. 1. An instrument consisting 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 of 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. Fork beam 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. 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. 6. To shoot into blades, as corn. "The corn beginneth to fork." Origin: AS. Forc, fr. L. Furca. Cf. Fourch, Furcate. (04 Apr 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fork

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