Definition of: fork

(fôrk) noun
1. A utensil consisting of a handle and two or more tines or prongs, used for handling food at the table or in cooking.
2. A pronged agricultural or mechanical implement for tossing, turning, carrying, digging, lifting, etc.: a pitchfork.
3. Anything of like use or shape.
4. An offshoot: diverging branch.
5. The angular opening or place of division.
6. The point at which two roads or streams unite.
7. Each of the roads or streams: the west fork; also, the ground in the angle made by the junction of two streams.
8. A dilemma.
9. The barb of an arrow.
—v.t.
1. To make fork–shaped.
2. To pierce, pitch, or dig with or as with a fork.
3. In chess, to attack (two pieces) simultaneously.
—v.i.
4. To branch; bifurcate: The trail forked.
—to fork out (or over or up) Slang To pay or hand over. [OE forca <L furca]