Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large fork used to hold meat while it is being carved, and generally provided with a guard to prevent cutting the hand if the knife slips.
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Examples
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Aubrey lifted it with the carving-fork, looked at me, and said:
At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell
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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
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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
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"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
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She pulled corks from olive-bottles with the carving-fork prongs and bent them backwards.
Paste Jewels John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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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
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The spoons he couldn't find, but he found a carving-fork and a fish-slice.
The Magic City 1891
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And he bit a generous inch off the cold sausage which he had speared with the carving-fork.
The Magic City 1891
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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
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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.
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