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To raise or move with or as with a fork; to dig, take, or throw in, out, up, etc., with a fork.
transitive. To pierce, stab, or pick up with a prong or fork. Formerly also: †to break up (soil) with a fork (cf. prong, n.2 1a) (obsolete).