an instrument consisting of a handle, and a blade of metal, divided into two or more points or prongs, used for lifting or pitching any thing; as a tablefork for feeding; a pitchfork; a dungforkforks are also made of ivory, wood or other material.

A point; as a thunderbolt with three forks. Shakespeare uses it for the point of an arrow.

Forks, in the plural, the point where a road parts into two; and the point where a river divides, or rather where two rivers meet and unite in one stream. Each branch is called a fork.

To shoot into blades, as corn.

to divide into two; as, a road forks.

to raise or pitch with a fork, as hay.

To dig and break ground with a fork.

To make sharp; to point.