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.
Fork(n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
Fork(n.) 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.
Fork(n.) 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.
Fork(n.) The gibbet.
Fork(v. i.) To shoot into blades, as corn.
Fork(v. i.) 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.
Forked(a.) Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.
Forked(a.) Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
Forked(imp. & p. p.) of Fork
Forking(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fork
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