Fork

·vi To shoot into blades, as corn.

II. Fork ·noun The Gibbet.

III. Fork ·vi To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.

IV. Fork ·vt To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

V. Fork ·noun Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

VI. Fork ·noun The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.

VII. Fork ·noun One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, ·etc.; a barbed point, as of an Arrow.

VIII. Fork ·noun An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved;

— used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.