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Fork Forked Path Road Tool Food Row Long

word fork
definition
noun
A fork is a tool used for eating food which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end.
...knives and forks.
A garden fork is a tool used for breaking up soil which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end.
A fork in a road, path, or river is a point at which it divides into two parts and forms a ' Y ' shape.
We arrived at a fork in the road.
The road divides; you should take the right fork.
...the fork of the Delaware and Lehigh rivers.
verb
If you fork food into your mouth or onto a plate, you put it there using a fork.
Ann forked some fish into her mouth.
He forked an egg onto a piece of bread and folded it into a sandwich.
If you fork something such as manure or hay, you move it from one place to another using a large garden fork.
They started me off in the gardens as a handyman. Digging, forking manure, that kind of thing.
Farmers cut the hay, fork it on to a cart and then store it in barns.
If a road, path, or river forks, it forms a fork.
Beyond the village the road forked.
The path dipped down to a sort of cove, and then it forked in two directions.
If you fork in a particular direction when you are travelling along a road or path, you choose one of the forks in it and travel down it.
Just before the town boundary fork left onto a minor road.
inflections forksforkingforked
cefr-level A2

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