Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fork-shaped implement used for piling fagots upon a fire.
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Examples
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"It is not permitted but to the chief in quality, or to him who hath charge of the fire, to stir it up with the fire-fork, to kindle it, or take it away, or put fuel on."
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I should never have touched the fire-fork, when I was a little maid, and nigh got the house a-fire, had not old Dame _Conyers_, that was my godmother, bidden me not do the same.
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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The fireplace was supplied with andirons, a shovel, and a fire-fork, which served the place of a poker.
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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