1. fork - Noun
2. fork - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe road forks Source: Internet
they took the south fork Source: Internet
he climbed into the crotch of a tree Source: Internet
She forked her fingers Source: Internet
pitchfork hay Source: Internet
9front citation is a fork of Plan 9. It was started to remedy a perceived lack of devoted development resources inside Bell Labs, and has accumulated various fixes and improvements. Source: Internet