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Truly, the fork is the four-pronged

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  1. noun A utensil with two or more prongs, used for eating or serving food.
  2. noun An implement with two or more prongs used for raising, carrying, piercing, or digging.
  3. noun A bifurcation or separation into two or more branches or parts.

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  • Bou-Allem released me from the dilemma; he showed me, by himself plunging his fingers into the dish, that a fork was a very useless instrument. —  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
  • Eating apples with a fork is the elegant way of doing things. —  Anime Nano!
  • Your fork is accidentally knocked to the floor during a meal. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • If de Macklodds do touche, by von small hinch, de lands of de Companie--ve vill--hah Another stab of the fork was all that the savage Le Rue vouchsafed as an explanation of his intentions In this frame of mind Reginald Redding and his man started off next morning on foot at an early hour, slept that night at a place called Sam's hut, and, the following evening, drew near to the end of their journey CHAPTER THREE A BRIEF BUT AGREEABLE MEETING The little outskirt settlement of Partridge Bay was one of those infant colonies which was destined to become in future years a flourishing and thickly-peopled district of Canada. —  Wrecked but not Ruined
  • It is the simplicity of the tuning-fork, which is needed all the more because of the intricacy of strings in the instrument. —  Creative Unity
 

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spoon ·  knife ·  hook ·  stick ·  shovel ·  plate ·  bolt ·  pin ·  utensil ·  bowl ·  bucket ·  tray

Used in the same contextWord Family

fork:   forked ·  forks ·  forking
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English forke, digging fork, from Old English forca and from Old North French forque, both from Latin furca.

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  1. from Middle English fork, forke, from Anglo-Saxon forc = OFries. forke, furke = Dutch vork = Low German fork = Old High German furka, Middle High German furke, G. dial, furke, forke = Icelandic forkr = Danish fork = Old French forche, fourche (whence Middle English also forche, fourche), Old French also fourque, furke, French fourche = Provencal Old Spanish forca = Spanish horca = Portuguese Italian forca = Welsh fforch, ffwrch, a fork, from Latin furca, a fork.
  2. (fork, n.
 

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