Fork Noun Fɔːk Fɔːrk Eat Knife Mash Mixture

• to eat with a knife and fork
• mash the mixture with a fork.
• take the right fork.
• shortly before dusk they reached a fork and took the left-hand track.

fork

1. a tool with a handle and three or four sharp points (called prongs), used for picking up and eating food
• SEE ALSO toasting fork
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/toasting-fork
• to eat with a knife and fork
• Mash the mixture with a fork.

Extra Examples

• He put the knives and forks on the table.
• She impaled a piece of meat on her fork.
2. a garden tool with a long or short handle and three or four sharp metal points, used for digging
• SEE ALSO pitchfork
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/pitchfork
3. a place where a road, river, etc. divides into two parts; either of these two parts
• Take the right fork.
• Shortly before dusk they reached a fork and took the left-hand track.
• Bear left at the fork in the road.
4. a thing that is like a fork in shape, with two or more long parts
• SEE ALSO tuning fork
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/tuning-fork
• a jagged fork of lightning
• a monkey sitting in the fork of the tree
5. either of two metal supporting pieces into which a wheel on a bicycle or motorcycle is fitted

Word Origin

• Old English forca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stick’; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca).