1. To shoot into blades, as corn. The corn beginneth to fork. Mortimer. 1
2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
FORK
Fork, v. t.
Defn: To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over
with a fork, as the soil.
Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart. Prof. Wilson.
To fork over or out, to hand or pay over, as money. [Slang] G. Eliot.
FORKBEARD Fork"beard`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; — also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. (b) The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); — also called great forked beard.
FORKED
Forked, a.
1. Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting. A serpent seen, with forked tongue. Shak.
2. Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal. Cross forked (Her.), a cross, the ends of whose arms are divided into two sharp points; — called also cross double fitché. A cross forked of three points is a cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp points. — Forked counsel, advice pointing more than one way; ambiguous advice. [Obs.] B. Jonson. — Fork"ed*ly, adv. — Fork"ed*ness, n.
FORKERVE
For*kerve, v. t. [Obs.]
Defn: See Forcarve, v. t.