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