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US
/ˈfɔɹk/
]
[ UK /fˈɔːk/ ]
[ UK /fˈɔːk/ ]
VERB
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lift with a pitchfork
pitchfork hay - place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
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shape like a fork
She forked her fingers -
divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
The road forks
NOUN
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
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the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
he climbed into the crotch of a tree
they took the south fork - cutlery used for serving and eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
How To Use fork In A Sentence
- For Brown, visiting Gill at South Fork is a six-hour schlep that he's managed only three times.
- It contained two spoons and a fork, silver with her family crest stamped on the handles. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
- The fork was simply a military development of the agricultural implement.
- Simon ducked his head, cut a piece of ravioli in half with his fork and put it in his mouth.
- I crossed a railroad overpass and reached a bunch of shacks where two highways forked off, both for Denver.
- They had to fork out $ 100 to get the lorry repaired!
- Ramping up the subsidies is a relatively cheap way for the French to go as it usually falls to the UK, as a net contributor to the EU, to have to fork out to keep French politicians in office. The French Protection
- The UK industry no longer relies on casual labourers with a fork to spread muck. Times, Sunday Times
- In the Weber test, the tuning fork is struck and placed on the midline of the forehead, the nasal bridge, or the chin.
- For example, last year our wildlife department verified natural reproduction in both rainbows and browns in the Lower Mountain Fork river, which is a fantastic year-round tailrace fishery in SE Oklahoma. Hatchery Fish: The Weakest Link
