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forker|ˈfɔːkə(r)|
[f. fork v. + -er1.]
†1. = fork n. 2; perh. mispr. for forket. Obs.
a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 416 The Italians now take their meate with a forker.
2. One who forks:
a. One who throws up (hay, etc.) with a fork.
b. slang. (See quot. 1867).
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 35 One of the men is a loader, the other a forker. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Forkers, those who reside in seaports for the sake of stealing dockyard stores, or buying them, knowing them to be stolen.
†3. Something forked:
a. A forked tongue, a ‘sting’.
b. A forked arrow, a fork-head. Obs.
1589Nashe Martins Months Minde Wks. (Grosart) I. 155 His arrowes all are forkers. 1616J. Lane Contn. Sqr.'s T. ix. 388 A..snake..crawld vp her to stinge, with forker blewe. c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 205 An vnderkeeper..with a forker out of his Crosbowe slewe one Oliffe.
†4. slang. to wear a forker: to be ‘cornuted’.
1606Marston Parisitaster ii. i, Why? my lord, tis nothing to weare a forker.
5. (‘In Suffolk, an unpaired partridge.’ F. Hall.)
1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 4 They [? flying fish]..flye as far as young Partridges, that are forkers. |