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(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.