an instrument of greatly varying size with a handle at one end and two or more pointed prongs at the other: forks are variously used as eating utensils and for pitching hay, breaking up soil, etc.
something resembling a fork in shape: tuning fork
a division into branches; bifurcation
☆ the point where a river, road, etc. is divided into two or more branches, or where branches join to form a river, road, etc.
any of these branches
intransitive verb
to divide into branches; be bifurcated: where the road forks
transitive verb
to make into the shape of a fork
to pick up, spear, or pitch with a fork
Chess to attack (two chessmen) simultaneously with a single chessman