fork /förk/

1. Any pronged instrument (such as an eating implement or garden tool) for spiking and lifting, etc
2. Anything that divides into prongs or branches
3. A branch or prong
4. The space or angle between branches, esp on a tree or between the legs
5. A confluent, tributary or branch of a river
6. One of the branches into which a road divides
7. A dividing into two branches, a bifurcation
8. A place of bifurcation
9. A barbed arrowhead
10. The part of a bicycle to which a wheel is attached
11. The appearance of a flash of lightning
12. The bottom of a sump in a mine
13. In chess, a simultaneous attack on two pieces by one piece

1. To branch
2. To follow a branch road

1. To form as a fork
2. To move or lift with a fork
3. To stab or dig with a fork
4. In chess, to attack (two pieces) simultaneously
5. To pump dry

forked adjective

1. Shaped like a fork
2. Insincere or deceitful (as in forked tongue)

forkˈedly adverb

forkˈedness noun

forkˈer noun

forkˈful noun (pl forkˈfuls)

As much as a fork will hold

forkˈiness noun

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