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verb

Fork v. t. To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil. "Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart."

To fork over To fork out, to hand or pay over, as money; to cough up. (Slang)

Fork v. i. (past & past part. forked; pres. part. forking)

To shoot into blades, as corn. "The corn beginneth to fork."

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

adjective

Forked adj.

Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting. "A serpent seen, with forked tongue."

Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.

Cross forked (Her.), a cross, the ends of whose arms are divided into two sharp points; called also cross double fitché. A cross forked of three points is a cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp points.

Forked counsel, advice pointing more than one way; ambiguous advice. (Obs.)

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"Forked" Quotes from Famous Books

... few seconds of silence, in which the eyes of the two men met and told each other a good deal, he strode to the doorway, pushed aside the plank which served for a door, and went out into the storm. He did not feel the rain beating upon his head: he did not hear the thunder, nor see the forked lightning that played without intermission in the darkened sky; he was conscious only of the intolerable fact that he was shut up in a narrow corner of the earth, in daily, almost hourly, companionship with the ...

— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... the caravan so as not to be hindered and inconvenienced by its slow and cumbrous movements. A ride of three miles through the old forest brought them to the open, hilly country. Here the road forked. And here the family were ...

— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... Holden, Schaeberle, and Keeler from their observations of Uranus in 1889-90 with the potent instrument on Mount Hamilton. Shadings, it is true, were almost always, though faintly, seen; but they appeared under an anomalous, possibly an illusory aspect. They consisted, not of parallel, but of forked bands.[1131] ...

— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

... he has the forked tongue of the serpent, and like all the pale-faces, he is the enemy of the ...

— The Phantom of the River • Edward S. Ellis

... of the new canoe. He had made the paddles, and had cut the forked sticks that would be needed to force the boat through ...

— Two Indian Children of Long Ago • Frances Taylor

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