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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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Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the
extremity; as, a tuning fork. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The gibbet. |
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To shoot into blades, as corn. |
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To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree,
or a stream forks. |
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To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn
over with a fork, as the soil. |
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