Word Meanings - FORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An instrument consisting 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. 2.

Additional info about word: FORK

1. An instrument consisting 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. 2. Anything furcate or like of a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork. 3. 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. Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart. Shak. A thunderbolt with three forks. Addison. 4. 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. 5. The gibbet. Bp. Butler. Fork beam , a half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur. -- Fork chuck , a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work. -- Fork head. The barbed head of an arrow. The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint. -- In fork. A mine is said to be in fork, or an engine to "have the water in fork," when all the water is drawn out of the mine. Ure. -- The forks of a river or a road, the branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place.

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  Beyond the scope or province of logic.
• HOLD
  The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• METALLIC
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• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• SHANKBEER
  See SCHENKBEER
• METALLIFORM
  Having the form or structure of a metal.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• CONSISTORIAN
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• HOLDBACK
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• PITCHWORK
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• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• METALLIFACTURE
  The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
• CHANDLER
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• INHOLD
  To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
• UNMISTAKABLE
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• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
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• THRIFTINESS
  The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• INTERMINATED
  Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. Akenside.
• SPINDLESHANKS
  A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.
• HIGH-HOLDER
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