Fork

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1. Noun

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.

2. Noun

Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

3. Noun

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.

4. Noun

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.

5. Noun

The gibbet.

6. Verb

To shoot into blades, as corn.

7. Verb

To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.

8. Verb

To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

9. Noun

the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
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