an instrument 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.-anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.-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.-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.-the gibbet.-to shoot into blades, as corn.-to divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.-to raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.