fire-forkn.
/ˈfʌɪəfɔːk/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)rˌfɔrk/ Now chiefly English regional (midlands and southern).
A pronged instrument for stoking or tending a fire. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > pronged instrument for arranging fire
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prong1492
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > political unrest > [noun] > that which agitates
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1356 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 283 (MED) 5 firforkes.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 161 Fyyr forke, ticionarium.
1484 Rolls of Parl.: Richard III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1484 §29. m. 20 Fireforkes.
1547 Lanc. Willis I. 108 Ij yrnes for the oven mouthe and a fire-fork.
1582 W. W. True & Iust Recorde Witches sig. B8 Within halfe an houre after she hauing a fier fork in her hand, and beeing a stirring of the fire in the Quen, the spirit..came vnto her.
1627 M. Drayton Moone-calfe in Battaile Agincourt 179 The women eager as their husbands were With Spits, and Fireforkes.
1655 Edinb. Test. LXVIII. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Fire Ane pair of tanges and ane fayer fork.
1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice iii. 26 Bell. Who brought this Picture? Hot. The common Fire-fork of Rebellion.
1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions ix. 169 A fourth came out, not with a Sword, but a Fire-Fork.
1792 D. Steel New & Compl. Tables Net Duties Payable 98 Goods prohibited to be imported for Sale, by Strangers or Aliens...Forks, called Fire-Forks [etc.].
1851 Christian Witness 8 10/2 He fetched out a fire-fork, wherewith he wounded Beacon on the skull.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Fire-fork, an iron prong for raking ashes out of the oven.
1963 R. M. Nance Gloss. Cornish Sea-words 131 In W. Cornwall silver table-forks are ‘prongs’ and a fire-fork used to arrange turf on an open-hearth fire is a ‘fire-prong’.
2009 C. Q. Yarbro Burning Shadows 126 The shower of sparks that accompanied his prodding of the coals with the fire-fork.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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