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   Fork

   /fôrk/

   

   noun

   • 1. an implement with two or more prongs used for lifting food to the mouth or holding it when cutting.
   • ▪ a pronged tool used for digging or lifting in a garden or farm.
   • 2. the point where something, especially a road or river, divides into two parts: "turn right at the next fork"
   • ▪ either of the two parts where a road or river divides: "the left fork goes onto the village"
   • 3. a unit consisting of a pair of supports in which a bicycle or motorcycle wheel revolves.
   • 4. a flash of forked lightning.
   • 5. a simultaneous attack on two or more pieces by one piece.

   verb

   • 1. (especially of a road or other route) divide into two parts: "the place where the road forks"
   • ▪ take or constitute one part or the other at the point where a road or other route divides: "a minor road forked left"
   • 2. dig, lift, or manipulate (something) with a fork: "fork in some compost"
   • 3. attack (two pieces) simultaneously with one piece: "he has forked my bishop and knight"

   Word Origin Old Englishforca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stick’; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca).

   Derivatives

   • 1. forkful noun

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • F

     4

   • O

     1

   • R

     1

   • K

     5

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