carving-fork

Aubrey lifted it with the carving-fork, looked at me, and said:

At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell

All this time Meynell had keenly watched the play; he had risen from the sofa noiselessly, taken a large carving-fork from the supper table, and, unobserved by any of the excited players, stood behind the dealer's chair; his thin lips firmly compressed, and the fork grasped in his right hand, he leant over the table.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

From these appearances twenty years had taught me to fly to any burrow, but your dinner-table offers no retreat; you are hoist, so to speak, on your own carving-fork.

The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan

"Education!" echoed Mrs Bosenna in a high tone of contempt and with a half vicious dig of her carving-fork into the breast of a goose that

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

She pulled corks from olive-bottles with the carving-fork prongs and bent them backwards.

Paste Jewels John Kendrick Bangs 1892

And now, sitting out in the good sunshine, and growing less and less hungry as he plied fish-slice and carving-fork, his mind went back to his dream, which began to seem more and more real.

The Magic City 1891

The spoons he couldn't find, but he found a carving-fork and a fish-slice.

The Magic City 1891

And he bit a generous inch off the cold sausage which he had speared with the carving-fork.

The Magic City 1891

Flanking them were the canines, very long and slender, and very sharply pointed, thrusting themselves into the meat like the tines of a carving-fork, and tearing it away in great shreds.

Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals William Davenport Hulbert 1890

Although the King had already eaten heartily, he smacked his lips when he saw this tempting dish, and picking up the carving-fork he pushed it quickly into the pie.

Mother Goose in Prose 1887