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.

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

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.

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.

The gibbet.

To shoot into blades, as corn.

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

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