Definition of fork

• n. - 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.
• n. - Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
• n. - 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.
• n. - 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.
• n. - The gibbet.
• v. i. - To shoot into blades, as corn.
• v. i. - To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
• v. t. - To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.