Definitions for the word "fork" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
The gibbet.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
To shoot into blades, as corn.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 pronged item of cutlery. 2 similar large tool used for digging, lifting, etc. 3 forked support for a bicycle wheel. 4 a divergence of a branch, road, etc. Into two parts. B place of this. C either part. v. 1 form a fork or branch by separating into two parts. 2 take one road at a fork. 3 dig, lift, etc., with a fork. fork out slang pay, esp. Reluctantly. [latin furca pitchfork]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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