fork
Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
Noun 4 meanings
Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
A fork in the road, as follows:
A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
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.
“a thunderbolt with three forks”
Verb 4 meanings
To divide into two or more branches or copies.
“A road, a tree, or a stream forks.”
To move with a fork (as hay or food).
To apply a fork to.
“forking the soil”
To kick someone in the crotch.
Etymology
From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin.
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FORK at a glance
FORK has 4 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (F 4 + O 1 + R 1 + K 5) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,681 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with fork
All rhymes- WORK11
- YORK11
- NETWORK14
- FRAMEWORK21
- HOMEWORK20
- ARTWORK14
- PORK10
- PAPERWORK20
- CORK10
- TEAMWORK17
- WOODWORK19
- CLOCKWORK24
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