fork
fork (fôrk) noun
1. A utensil with two or more prongs, used for eating or serving food.
2. An implement with two or more prongs used for raising, carrying, piercing, or digging.
3. a. A bifurcation or separation into two or more branches or parts. b. The point at which such a bifurcation or separation occurs: a fork in a road. c. One of the branches of such a bifurcation or separation: the right fork. See synonyms at branch.
4. Games. An attack by one chess piece on two pieces at the same time.
verb
forked, forking, forks
verb, transitive
1. To raise, carry, pitch, or pierce with a fork.
2. To give the shape of a fork to (one's fingers, for example).
3. Games. To launch an attack on (two chess pieces).
4. Informal. To pay: forked over $50 for front-row seats; forked up the money owed.
verb, intransitive
1. To divide into two or more branches: The river forks here.
2. a. To use a fork, as in working. b. To turn at or travel along a fork.
[Middle English forke, digging fork, from Old English forca and from Old North French forque, both from Latin furca.]
forkʹer noun
forkʹful noun