- a tool with a handle and three or four sharp points (called prongs), used for picking up and eating food
- to eat with a knife and fork
- with a fork Mash the mixture with a fork.
Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatinga2- He put the knives and forks on the table.
- She impaled a piece of meat on her fork.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- toasting
- salad
- plastic
- …
- pick up
- put down
- use
- …
- on a/the fork
- with a fork
- a knife and fork
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- a garden tool with a long or short handle and three or four sharp metal points, used for digging see also pitchforkTopics Gardensb2
- 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.
- fork in something Bear left at the fork in the road.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- left
- right
- take
- at a/the fork
- in fork
- fork in
- …
- fork (of something) a thing that is like a fork in shape, with two or more long parts
- a jagged fork of lightning
- a monkey sitting in the fork of the tree
- either of two metal supporting pieces into which a wheel on a bicycle or motorcycle is fitted
Word OriginOld 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).
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