单词 | fork |
释义 | forkn. I. A pronged instrument. 1. a. An implement, chiefly agricultural, consisting of a long straight handle, furnished at the end with two or more prongs or tines, and used for carrying, digging, lifting, or throwing; also with word prefixed indicating its use, as digging-fork, dung-fork, hay- etc. fork: see those words; also fire-fork n., pitch-fork n.2, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > fork forkc1000 graip1459 prong1492 crotch1539 evil1642 yelve1688 prong fork1765 society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > fork forkc1000 prong1492 lifter1570 c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 430 Ða cwelleras..wið-ufan mid heora forcum hine ðydon. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 154 Furcilla, litel forca. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 69 Mon in þe mone..on is bot-forke is burþen he bereþ. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. xiii. 21 Eggys..of diggynge yrens, and of forkis..weren blunt. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iii. viii. 55 Suche folke..to bynde in fagottes and cast them with forkes into the fyre. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiiiiv A good husbande hath his forkes and rakes made redy in the wynter before. 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. C.iiiv At midsommer, downe with thy brimbles and brakes: and after abrode, with thy forkes and thy rakes. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie F 892 A Forke, or trout speare with three points, fuscina. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 250 The Crew, With Forks and Staves the Fellon to pursue. 1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) viii. 196 We must use an Iron Fork to draw them out of the Nursery-Beds. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 479 Lightly, shaking it with agile hand From the full fork. 1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 16 A fork for taking up potatoes, &c., and spreading dung. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > fork used as spear fork13.. prong1492 13.. K. Alis. 1191 Fiftene thousand of fot laddes, That..hadde, Axes, speres, forkis, and slynges. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales iii. ix. 78 Some with poles or forks ouerthrew this sluggish lump: leauing them for halfe dead lying on the ground. 1678 tr. L. de Gaya Treat. Arms of War 29 The Forks are the same with the common Forks, but they have little Hooks. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 16. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 16 Thou dost feare the soft and tender forke Of a poore worme. View more context for this quotation 2. a. An instrument with two, three, or four prongs, used for holding the food while it is being cut, for conveying it to the mouth, and for other purposes at table or in cooking. For carving-fork, dessert-fork, fish-fork, pickle-fork, table fork n., etc. see those words. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > cutlery > fork fork1463 flesh-crook1465 prong1492 forket1583 forkera1603 runcible spoon1870 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 40 I beqwethe to Davn John Kertelynge my silvir forke for grene gyngour. 1554 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 147 I geve and bequeath my neighbor..my spone with a forke in the end. 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Diij At the signe of the siluer forke and the tosted cheese. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. i. sig. Iv Then, must you learne the vse, And handling of your siluer forke, at meales. View more context for this quotation 1720 W. R. Chetwood Voy. Capt. R. Falconer ii. 11 I had in my Pocket a Knife and Fork. 1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy 35 The poorest tradesman in Boulogne has..silver forks with four prongs. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby vii. 62 He laid down his knife and fork. b. forks and knives n. the name of the club-moss Lycopodium clavatum. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > club-moss or moss-like ferns dwarf cypress1548 heath-cypress1551 pine1551 wolf's-claw1578 club-moss1597 wolf-claw1597 wolf's-foot1597 tree-moss1611 Selagoa1627 cypress-moss1640 mountain moss1688 lycopodium1706 stag's horn (also staghorn) moss1741 walking fern1814 tod-tails1820 Robin Hood's hatband1828 resurrection plant1841 ground-pine1847 forks and knives1853 fir club-moss1855 lycopod1861 Selaginella1865 foxtail1866 stag-head or stag's head moss1869 fir-moss1879 hog-bed1900 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 257. 3. a. Used in plural for the prongs of a fork. Also transferred. Cf. 12. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > fork > prong of fork grain1486 forket1583 graininga1642 fork1677 prong1697 spear1742 spean1777 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Proboscidea (elephants) > [noun] > elephant > parts of > tusk(s) toothc1050 horn1607 fence1727 scrivello1735 fork1767 1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) iv. 40 An Eel-Spear:..is made for the most part with three Forks or Teeth. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 447 A thunderbolt with three forks. 1767 H. Kelly Babler I. 280 A couple of tushes that project a surprising way from the mouth, like the forks of an elephant. b. plural (slang). The fingers. Hence, a pick-pocket (B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew ?a1700). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] fingerOE talons1594 nimblesa1637 the ten stealers1655 Welsh comb1788 forks1819 hooks1829 fingerlet1836 bread hook1845 dactyl1889 grab-hook1946 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 175 Forks, the two fore-fingers; to put your forks down, is to pick a pocket. 1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 345 No dummy hunter had forks so fly. 4. A steel instrument with two prongs which, when set in vibration, gives a musical note; called more fully a tuning-fork n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > tuning or intonation > [noun] > device for tuning instruments > tuning-fork or -pipe pitch-pipe1685 pitch-fork1776 fork1800 tuning-fork1800 1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 134 The fork was a comma and a half above the pitch..of an imaginary C. c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 275/1 If the fork be struck against any hard body..its prong..vibrates. II. Applied to various objects having two (or more) branches. a. A gallows. Also plural. Cf. forche n. 1. [So Old French fourche(s, Latin furca; the Roman gallows was originally of the shape ʌ.] ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows gallowsOE gallows-treea1000 warytre?a1200 gibbet?c1225 gallow-forka1250 forkc1275 juisec1320 forchesc1380 crossa1382 treec1425 patible1428 justice1484 potencec1500 haltera1533 turning-tree1548 potentc1550 three treesa1566 chates1567 mare1568 furel1587 bough1590 gibe1590 derrickc1600 hangrella1605 cross-tree1638 Gregorian tree1641 wooden horse1642 timber-marec1650 triple tree1651 furca1653 nubbing1673 a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678 nub1699 Tyburn tree1728 raven-stone1738 picture frame1785 crap1789 lamp-iron1790 Moll Blood1818 stifler1818 scragging-post1819 government signposta1828 leafless tree1830 shuggie-shue1836 doom-tree1837 stob1860–62 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2853 Þe furken [c1300 Otho forkes]. weoren aræred heo teuwen up þa ȝisles. and heom þer hengen. 1399 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) I. 379 He shulde have hadde hongynge on hie on the fforckis. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 121 Lat him end his lyf vpon ane fork. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 195 They had run through all punishments, and just 'scaped the fork. b. Roman History. Used to render Latin furca, (a) the ‘yoke’ under which defeated enemies were made to pass as a token of their submission; (b) the forked stake used as a whipping-post. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > subjugation > yoke under which defeated enemy passed yokec1540 gallows1565 fork1619 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whipping-post or tripod pillara1475 rogue stob1550 post1555 whipping-post1600 whipping-stock1615 fork1619 whipstock1619 flogging-stake1785 flogging-block1827 triangle1847 whipping-pole1862 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. i. xvi. 73 Passing them naked vnder forkes, or gallowses. a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca ii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gggg4v/1 The Forks. where ye shall have two Lictors with two whips hammer your hide. 1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise iv. v. 53 We past like beaten Romans underneath the Fork. 6. A stake, staff, or stick with a forked end. a. as a prop for a vine or tree. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > stake for plants fork1389 incrementc1420 stakingc1440 stay1577 stick1577 bean-wood1584 pea stick1745 beanpole1798 stickings1800 bean-stick1823 pea-stake1840 flower-stick1881 pea-bough1885 trainer2004 1389 Helmingham MS. 21. 17 b Forkis..to bere up þe vyne. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §423 Some have put two little Forks about the bottom of their Trees, to keep them up~right. 1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 43 The boughs..propped up by forks. b. a rest for a musket; cf. forcat n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > rest or support gun-stock1495 trestle1497 trest1513 rest1546 musket rest1590 fork1591 shoulder-rest1868 benchrest1892 1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 7 To traine hys Forke or Staffe after hym whilest he..doth charge hys Musket. c. (See quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > rod > [noun] > support for rod fork1726 rest1726 rod rest?1881 bankstick1964 1726 Gentleman Angler 149 A Fork. Vide Rest [for a fishing rod]. d. Mining (Derbyshire): see quot. 1881. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > prop or support crown tree1449 punch1462 prop1613 slider1653 sole1653 yoking1653 stow-blade1681 pit-bar1708 fork1747 head tree1747 studdle1758 lock piece1778 pit-prop1794 puncheon1815 stow-fork1824 plank tubbing1839 sprag1841 gib1847 chock1853 Tom1858 bratticing1866 pack1867 breastboard1877 brattice1881 wall-plate1881 strap1883 stretcher1883 1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Giijb If..we think it will let the Forks settle when they come to be weighted, we put a Sill under them. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 135 Fork..a piece of wood supporting the side of an excavation in soft ground. e. A divining-rod. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the paranormal > [noun] > detection of radiation > detecting subterraneous springs, etc. > rhabdomancy > divining-rod rod1617 Moses' rod1646 divining-wand1656 virgula divina or divinatoria1656 Mosaical roda1681 dowsing-rod1692 divining-stick1712 waggers1747 divining-rod1751 mineral rod1797 fork1886 1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 137 Some..even resorted to the witch-hazel fork [in ‘prospecting’ for petroleum]. 7. Building. See quots. 1868, 1883. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > roof-beam > other roof supports soulace1374 forkc1420 sispar1532 bougars1568 straining-beama1805 straining-piecea1805 straining-silla1805 hip truss1850 roost1880 shoulder-wedge1887 main tie1915 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 522 Let make an hous for bestis..Of forkis, & of boord. 1792 J. Mastin Hist. Naseby 9 The most antique architecture, called forked building, which forks are all of oak. 1841 Anc. Laws Wales 351 Thirty pence is the value of every fork that shall support the roof tree. 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Forks, the centres, in the timber-work of the roof of a shed, house or other building; commonly, ‘a pair of forks’. 1883 F. Seebohm Eng. Village Community 239 Their [the trees'] extremities bending over make a Gothic arch, and crossing one another at the top, each pair makes a fork, upon which the roof-tree is fixed. These trees supporting the roof-tree are called gavaels, forks, or columns. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > breast and collarbones > [noun] fork of the throatc1400 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 316 For brekyng of þe forke of þe þrote and of þe brest. ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Biv The forke of the brest.., fourcelle. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. i. 39 The Forke or Throat hath five [bones]. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > barbed head angle-head1488 hook1488 swallowtail1545 flukea1600 fork1608 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 136 Make from the shaft. Kent. Let it fall rather, Though the forke inuade the region of my heart. View more context for this quotation 10. In various technical uses. a. A piece of steel fitting into the socket or chuck of a lathe, used for carrying round the piece to be turned. ΚΠ 1858 in P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products b. Also forks. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Belt Fork, or Strap Fork, a pair of prongs standing out from a strap bar and enclosing a space within which the belt or strap of a machine fitted with fast and loose pulleys runs. 1893 Labour Commission Gloss. Forks. In mill sawing machinery the forks are two upright pieces of iron one on each side of the band moved by a lever to throw the band on or off the driving wheels. c. The front or back projection of a saddle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle saddle-boweOE arsonc1300 saddle skirt1361 saddle-tree1364 skirtc1400 saddle panel1465 stock-tree1470 stock1497 pommela1500 tree1535 pillion cloth1540 port1548 saddle stock1548 pilch1552 bolster1591 cantle1591 shank-pilliona1599 pillowc1600 pad1604 crutch1607 sivet1607 saddle crutcha1614 saddle eaves1663 saddle tore1681 burr1688 head1688 narve1688 saddle seat1688 sidebar1688 torea1694 quarter1735 bands of a saddle1753 witherband1764 withers1764 peak1775 pillion-stick1784 boot-housing1792 saddle flap1798 saddle lap1803 fork1833 flap1849 horn1849 skirting1852 hunting-horn1854 head-plate1855 saddle horn1856 cantle bar1859 leaping-horn1859 straining1871 stirrup-bar1875 straining-leather1875 spring tree1877 leaping-head1881 officer-tree1894 monkey1911 monkey-strap1915 thigh roll1963 straining-web- 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. 46 The pummel or fore fork. 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. 42 The Blanket..to be raised well into the fork. d. The part of a bicycle frame in which the (front or back) wheel revolves; also attributive, as fork-blade, fork-crown, fork-end, fork-head. Also plural. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > frame and parts of frame1869 fork1871 headpiece1877 head1881 frameset1899 dropout1923 crossbar1966 1871 English Mechanic 13 144 Can any reader give me a description of socket and fork of ‘Ariel’ bicycle? 1880 Scott. Football Ann. (advt.) The Howe Bicycle, all the latest improvements, hollow oval fork, &c. 1892 Work 27 Aug. 379/2 Front mud-guard should be fixed to fork crown with a bolt and nut. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 277/1 Pressing with the thumbs upon the hub, spring the fork ends one by one over the end of the axle. 1902 Captain 7 83/1 The fork head of the Raleigh. 1908 Daily Chron. 7 Nov. 7/1 In a fog it is better to carry one's lamp on the fork-blade than high up. 1952 Cycling (‘Know the Game’ Series) (1964) 17 The wheel revolves on a spindle contained in the hub and this is usually secured in the forks of the cycle by means of two ordinary nuts. 1957 Encycl. Brit. III. 544/2 The fork crown (at the top of the forks) is fixed to the steering column. 1968 Which? Aug. 233 We measured the strength of front forks (the parts of the frame which are likely to bend or crack first), pedal cranks and carriers. e. The forked prop which supports the mantle in an incandescent gas burner. ΚΠ 1913 Work 14 June 219/3 Clay forks for incandescent mantles. 11. Mining. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > reservoir or sump > bottom of fork1778 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis Gloss. 321 Forcque, Fork, the bottom of the Sumph. Forking the water, is drawing it all out; and when it is done, they say..‘the Engine is in Fork’. 1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 611 When a mine is in fork the bottom of the engine-shaft is clear of water. 12. [ < the verb.] A forking, bifurcation, or division into branches; the point at which anything forks. Hence, each of the branches into which anything forks. a. gen. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun] > bifurcation > a bifurcation fork1398 bifurcation1766 prong1846 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun] > bifurcation > point at which bifurcation takes place twisel931 twist1398 fork1677 crotch1758 bifurcation1766 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xviii. 123 The endes of thyse bones ben departed and haue two forkes. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 375 The forked values making certain gaping fissures betweene their forkes. 1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) iv. 10 Those sixty Carps were from Eye to Fork from fifteen Inches to eighteen Inches. 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 84 We cross the two first fingers of one hand, and place a pea in the fork between them. b. In the human body, the part at which the lower limbs proceed from the trunk. Also (singular and plural), the lower limbs themselves; the lower half of the body. Cf. forchure n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > groin or crotch > [noun] shareeOE liskc1175 forchure13.. cleftc1325 fouchc1330 grainsa1400 swange?a1400 groin14.. thigh-holec1425 twist1572 crotcha1592 fork1608 cleaving1632 inguen1679 crutch- the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > parts of > forked tongue tanga1350 sting1530 tongue1581 fork1608 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [noun] shanka900 legc1300 grainsa1400 limbc1400 foot?a1425 stumpa1500 pin?1515 pestlea1529 boughc1550 stamp1567 understander1583 pile1584 supporters1601 walker?1611 trestle1612 fetlock1645 pedestal1695 drumstick1770 gam1785 timber1807 tram1808–18 fork1812 prop1817 nethers1822 forkals1828 understanding1828 stick1830 nether person1835 locomotive1836 nether man1846 underpinning1848 bender1849 Scotch peg1857 Scotch1859 under-pinner1859 stem1860 Coryate's compasses1864 peg1891 wheel1927 shaft1935 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 115 Yon simpring dame whose face between her forkes presageth snow. View more context for this quotation 1812 Examiner 12 Oct. 652/a You are not long enough in the fork for the—dragoons. 1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) xiv. 234 The thigh, and entire leg from the fork to the ankle. c. The point at which a river divides into two, or the point of junction of two rivers; a branch or tributary. Chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > tributary > [noun] > fork graina1400 creek1622 fork1692 tine1875 1692 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1906) 1 11 [It is therin described as] Being in the forks of Gunpowder River by the side of the said River. c1700 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1896) XI. 183 Two trees in the forke of the brooke. 1753 C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 80 We..got to the big fork of said river. 1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville (1849) 41 The fork of the Nebraska, where it divides itself into two equal and beautiful streams. 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxix. 372 N. and S. forks of the great estuary of Milford Haven. 18.. Scenes Rocky Mts. 50 Their village, at the Forks of the Platte. 1877 J. A. Allen Amer. Bisons 515 Great herds on the east fork of the Salmon River. d. of a road. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > fork gateshodelc1440 parting of the ways1611 fork-way1819 fork1855 1855 W. Irving Chron. Wolfert's Roost 371 A fork in the road. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 241 Taking the fork where the ways parted, in order to intercept the fugitives. 1883 C. Howard Roads Eng. & Wales (ed. 3) 47 Here take the right hand fork. e. of a plant or tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [noun] > fork fork1776 1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 200 Fruit-stalk..rising from the fork of the stem. 1843 Zoologist 1 228 The raven's nest was placed in a fork..of one of these trees. 1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond I. xv. 230 Torches were struck in clefts of the trees, or in the fork of the branches. f. A flash (of forked lightning); a tongue of flame. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > fork of fork1859 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning > specific types > fork of fork1859 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 143 Dazzled by the livid-flickering fork. 1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 58 A fork of flame from Vesuvius Through his black cone went on high. g. Chess. A simultaneous attack on two pieces, esp. by a knight. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > strategy > specific strategies or tactics unpinning1607 defence1614 fork1656 attack1733 backgame1750 castling1813 exchange1823 pin1868 fringe-variation1898 fidation1910 sacrifice1915 unpin1922 pawn storm1926 Siesta variation1935 liquidation1965 sac1965 1656 F. Beale tr. G. Greco Royall Game Chesse-play vii Forke is, that when you see two of the enemies Noble-men standing in the same ranke, and but one house betwixt them, advance a pawne, guarded with an other, unto the middle house before them both, and you may commonly take one of them. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) 66/2 A Fork or dilemma, is a way of takeing a chesse man, by runing vp a pawn to the rank next two great men of the aduerse part standing in one rank with a house betweene them, where if one be saued, the other wilbe taken. 1761 E. Hoyle Ess. Game of Chess A4 Take care of a Fork or a Check by Discovery, or a Stale mat. 1764 R. Lambe Hist. Chess 98 A Fork is, when an adverse Pawn must take one of your Pieces, by standing upon a Square of the next Line, between two of them. 1890 R. F. Green Chess v. 17 A frequent and fatal fork. The White Knight..attacks both the Black King and Queen. 1969 ‘A. Glyn’ Dragon Variation ix. 293 Carl was threatening a Knight fork against Boghossian's Queen and other Rook. a. The union of two lines of descent. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > a line of descent > union of two lines of descent fork1559 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Clarence vi Of which two houses ioyned in a forke, My father..was lawful heire beget. b. A dilemma, choice of alternatives; also, a dichotomy, distinction. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun] > a difference or distinction shedc950 diversityc1340 differencea1382 differencea1393 severance1422 distinction1435 discretivec1487 differing1528 unlikeness1561 distinguishment1592 fork1639 discrimen1644 misresemblancea1693 bright line1842 the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > choosing between alternatives > a choice of alternatives fork1639 either-or1841 issue1850 1639 J. Fletcher et al. Bloody Brother iii. ii. sig. G2 There is a fork sir, In death..Man may be two wayes killed. 1679 T. Hobbes Behemoth (unauthorized ed.) 39 Declining the force of true Reason by verbal Forks..distinctions that signify nothing. 14. Caudine Forks n. [= Latin Furcae or Furculae Caudinae] proper name of a defile near Caudium, in Samnium, where the Romans were intercepted in the second Samnite war. Hence proverbially used for: A crushing defeat. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defeat > [noun] confusionc1290 scomfit13.. cumber1303 discomfitc1330 scomfitingc1333 discomfiturea1400 scomfiturea1400 discomfitingc1405 overthrowc1440 male journey1455 overset1456 foilc1478 discomforture1485 supprise1488 reversea1529 distrage?1548 loss1548 defeat1553 underdeal1553 discomfort1589 defeatment1598 defeature1598 rufflec1600 defeatance1608 routa1616 Caudine Forks1619 disrout1623 conviction1631 bang1644 derout1644 conquest1677 drubbing1769 check1793 thrashing1797 sauve-qui-peut1815 debacle1847 smash1888 pasting1942 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. i. xvi. 73 The most notable and famous foyle..was receiued at the Forkes of Caudium. 1781 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 403 The Romans never saw but one Caudine Forks in their whole history. Americans have shown the Britons two in one war. CompoundsGeneral attributive (see also sense 10d). C1. a. Objective. fork-grinder n. ΚΠ 1844–5 G. Dodd Dict. Manuf. at Fork-making The fork~grinders are too often a reckless body of men. 1889 Daily News 11 Nov. 2/6 With the exception of the fork grinders there is no actual agitation. b. Parasynthetic and similative. (a) fork-like adj. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Fourcheure A forkinesse..a fork-like diuision. 1889 Daily News 9 Oct. 5/5 They frequently fix the faces of the prisoners with fork~like irons towards the burning sun. fork-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 334/2 The vessel then passes between the clavicle and the fork-shaped bone. fork-tongued adj. ΚΠ 1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence iii. i. sig. G They..Had trod on fork-tongu'd Adders. (b) fork-wise adv. ΚΠ ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Dij The veynes..renne forkewyse in two partyes. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xvi. 40 Divided forkwise into two twigs. C2. a. Special combinations. Also fork-head n., fork-tail adj. and n. fork-beam n. Nautical (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > other timbers supporting beams pointer1750 shelf-piece1830 shelf1845 beam-arm1850 fork-beam1850 hold-stanchion1867 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 95 Fork-Beam, a forked piece of timber nearly of the depth of the beam, scarphed, tabled, and bolted, for additional security to the sides of beams athwart large openings in the decks. fork-beard n. a name given to various fishes of the genus Phycis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > member of genus Phycis (fork-beard) goatfish1613 forked-bearda1705 hake's dame1823 fork-beard1864 1864 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands III. 122 Lesser Forkbeard. fork-breakfast n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > breakfast or morning meal forme-metea1175 breakfast1463 disjune1491 jentation1599 jenticulation1658 meat breakfast1728 English breakfast1773 déjeuner1787 dejeune1788 fork-breakfast1812 tea-breakfast1825 cooked breakfast1848 chota hazri1863 hunt-breakfast1877 petit déjeuner1879 brekker1889 brekkie1904 Continental breakfast1911 prayer breakfast1930 Oslo breakfast1937 fry1959 1812 Sporting Mag. 39 163 Le dejeuner à la fourchette, or fork-breakfast, is so called, because in eating meat you have occasion for a fork. 1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol ii. xv In this country..the French midday fork-breakfast, is unknown. fork-carving adj. that uses a fork in carving. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [adjective] > carved > that uses a fork in carving fork-carvinga1640 a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Queene of Corinth iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbbb4/1 Your T. beard..doth expresse the enamour'd Courtier, As full as your fork-carving Travellour. fork-chuck n. Wood-turning a chuck with two or more teeth: see quot. 1874. ΚΠ 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Fork Chuck. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Fork-chuck (Turning), a piece of steel projecting from the live spindle and carrying the front center and a pair of joints which enter the wood and rotate it. fork-fish n. ? a kind of thornback. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun] whalec950 tumbrelc1300 sprout1340 squame1393 codmop1466 whitefish1482 lineshark?a1500 salen1508 glaucus1509 bretcock1522 warcodling1525 razor1530 bassinatc1540 goldeney1542 smy1552 maiden1555 grail1587 whiting1587 needle1589 pintle-fish1591 goldfish1598 puffin fish1598 quap1598 stork1600 black-tail1601 ellops1601 fork-fish1601 sea-grape1601 sea-lizard1601 sea-raven1601 barne1602 plosher1602 whale-mouse1607 bowman1610 catfish1620 hog1620 kettle-fish1630 sharpa1636 carda1641 housewifea1641 roucotea1641 ox-fisha1642 sea-serpent1646 croaker1651 alderling1655 butkin1655 shamefish1655 yard1655 sea-dart1664 sea-pelican1664 Negro1666 sea-parrot1666 sea-blewling1668 sea-stickling1668 skull-fish1668 whale's guide1668 sennet1671 barracuda1678 skate-bread1681 tuck-fish1681 swallowtail1683 piaba1686 pit-fish1686 sand-creeper1686 horned hog1702 soldier1704 sea-crowa1717 bran1720 grunter1726 calcops1727 bennet1731 bonefish1734 Negro fish1735 isinglass-fish1740 orb1740 gollin1747 smelt1776 night-walker1777 water monarch1785 hardhead1792 macaw-fish1792 yellowback1796 sea-raven1797 blueback1812 stumpnose1831 flat1847 butterfish1849 croppie1856 gubbahawn1857 silt1863 silt-snapper1863 mullet-head1866 sailor1883 hogback1893 skipper1898 stocker1904 the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > raia clavata (thornback) thornbackc1300 maid1569 fork-fish1601 rock ray1611 maid-fish1665 thorn-but1668 thorny-back1811 roker1860 thornback ray1862 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 261 The Puffen or Fork-fish..lieth in await..ready to strike the fishes that passe by with a sharpe rod or pricke that he hath. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Fork-fish, a kind of Thorn-back, so call'd from its forked Tail. fork-lift truck n. a vehicle fitted with a pronged device in front for lifting and carrying heavy goods; also elliptically fork-lift. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > fork-lift truck fork-lift truck1946 lift truck1963 1946 Engin. Index 1945 557/2 Use of carrier fork lift trucks capable of handling filled cable reels. 1950 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 54 521/1 Fork lifts, and in exceptional cases loading ramps, were used for the bulky awkward items. 1955 Radio Times 30 Sept. Modern package~handling machines—fork-lifts they are called. 1958 Times 1 July (Agric. Suppl.) p. iv/7 The tractor is fitted with a fork lift loader to lift 35 cwt. capacity pallets. 1968 Times 11 Mar. p. ii. (caption) A heavy load..handled by a forklift truck. fork-moss n. a kind of moss ( Dicranum bryoïdes). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > other mosses golden maidenhair1578 polytrichon1578 bryon1597 maidenhair moss1597 mountain coralline1598 chalice-moss1610 purple bottle1650 water moss1663 fern-moss1698 hypnum1753 Mnium1754 rock tripe1763 feather-moss1776 scaly water-moss1796 screw moss1804 hog-bed1816 fringe-moss1818 caribou moss1831 apple moss1841 bristle-moss1844 scale-moss1846 anophyte1850 robin's rye1854 wall moss1855 fork-moss1860 thread-moss1864 lattice moss1868 robin-wheat1886 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 192 The sight of the fork-moss would ever afterwards call up a vivid recollection of that desolate scene. fork-ribbed adj. having ribs branching off like the prongs of a fork. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > ridge channel > [adjective] rivelledOE wrinkled1563 channelled1597 ribbed1597 trisulcated1703 ribby1706 rugose1707 ruminate1800 ruminated1828 striolate?1841 multicostate1849 crested1856 fork-ribbed1858 tricostate1861 bicarinate1872 carinal1872 vallecular1875 carinate1876 bicarinated1880 trisulcate1891 1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §196 As regards their leaves, the Cryptogamia may be characterized as fork-ribbed. fork-shaft n. the handle of a fork. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > handle > of specific tool crankc1000 steal1377 pipe1397 pot-hook1397 shaft1530 fork-shafta1642 bell-handle1768 hasp1770 fettle1812 panhandle1890 a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 36 Shorte forke shaftes made of seasoned Ash. 1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words Fork-shaft, handle of a fork, whether pitchfork or any other. fork-staff-plane n. a kind of joiner's plane used for working convex cylindrical surfaces. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > for curved surfaces spokeshave1510 hollow-plane1678 round1793 fork-staff-plane1815 howel1846 compass-plane1849 spout plane1855 concave-plane1874 hoop-shave1885 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 111 A plane..with a concave sole, is also distinguished by the name of a forkstaff-plane. fork-way n. a point where two roads meet or diverge, a fork. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > fork gateshodelc1440 parting of the ways1611 fork-way1819 fork1855 1819 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 47 308 Hecate, Luna, Diana, who meet in a fork~way. fork-wrench n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Fork-wrench, a spanner with two jaws which embrace a nut or square on a coupling. b. fork supper n. (also fork-buffet, fork-dinner, fork-lunch, fork-luncheon, etc.), a meal served at a buffet, etc., consisting of food suitable for eating with fork alone, making the provision of set places at table unnecessary. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > buffet or standing meal perpendicular1863 stand-up1882 buffet meal1888 fork supper1940 1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie i. 12 He came to all the week-end parties, tea parties, fork luncheons. 1949 Antiquity 23 121 After a sumptuous fork-luncheon they all set off for Amiens. 1952 A. Colby Beauty Bk. 230 The buffet supper..is a ‘fork supper’. 1957 H. Croome Forgotten Place vii. 89 We'll have a party. Just a fork supper, and a bit of dancing. 1958 TV Times 18 July 18/3 The party is always on a Sunday or Monday—fork buffets, of course. 1965 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 9 Oct. 17/11 A fork dinner for 40 young friends. 1971 Times 22 Jan. 14/3 Aspirants..would be well-advised to practise the art of conversing while wielding wine glass and loaded plate, because the plan is to hold a two-hour fork luncheon before the selection meeting. Draft additions 1993 forkball n. Baseball a pitch in which the ball is held tightly with the thumb, index, and middle fingers spread wide apart, in order to make it fall down sharply or behave in an otherwise unpredictable manner; cf. split-finger(ed) fastball adj. at split adj. Additions. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > pitching > types of pitch change of pace1650 slow ball1838 passed ball1860 ball1863 rib roaster1864 called ball1865 low ball1866 wild pitch1867 curveball1875 short pitch1877 grass cutter1879 fastball1883 downshoot1886 lob ball1888 pitchout1903 bean ballc1905 spitball1905 screwball1908 spitter1908 sinker ball1910 fallaway1912 meatball1912 fireball1913 roundhouse1913 forkball1923 sinker1926 knuckle ball1927 knuckler1928 gofer1932 slider1936 sailer1937 junk1941 change up1942 eephus1943 junkball1944 split-finger(ed) fastball1980 change1982 1923 Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide 191 Opponents scored 3.32 earned runs per game off ‘Bullet Joe's’ ‘fork ball’ delivery. 1962 J. Brosnan Pennant Race 86 You oughta hurry that fork ball up, though. Any pitch that looks as much like a spitball as that has got to have a future. 1974 Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald-Jrnl. 21 Apr. b1 He was out to prove that what appears to be an illegal spitball pitch actually is a forkball. 1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 Oct. c3/4 Henke has added the forkball this year, but still does not have complete command of it. Draft additions December 2002 Molecular Biology. More fully replication fork. A Y-shaped region where the strands of a duplex DNA molecule are separated during replication. ΚΠ 1963 J. Cairns in Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 6 211 It seems clear that this DNA replicates by forking and that new material is formed along both limbs of the fork. 1968 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 33 804/2 These observations indicate that the general aspects of chromosome replication in bacteria may include multiple replication forks. 1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) v. 228 At a replication fork the DNA of both new daughter helices is synthesized by a multienzyme complex that contains the DNA polymerase. 2000 B. Lewin Genes VII xiii. 392 On the lagging strand a stretch of single-stranded parental DNA must be exposed, and then a segment is synthesized in the reverse direction (relative to fork movement). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). forkv. 1. a. intransitive. To form a fork; to divide into branches, divaricate. Of lightning: To play forkedly. Also with away, off, or out. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > diverge [verb (intransitive)] to-liec893 ramify?1541 sever1545 fork1605 divaricate1623 diverge1665 bifurcate1828 split1856 trifurcate1887 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > divide in two [verb (intransitive)] > bifurcate twisel931 fork1605 grain1664 bifurcate1828 bisect1870 the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > flash lightning laita1225 lightena1398 levina1400 flush-flash1582 fulgurate1677 flash1791 fork1807 streak1849 lightning1861 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [verb (intransitive)] > lighten > flash > specific fork1807 streak1849 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 395 Adams Trunck (of both our Worlds the Tree) In two faire Branches forking fruitfully. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 239 Others [trees] ascend vertically, and..fork off in various tiers. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad v. 179 The flames fork round the semivault of heaven. 1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 iv. 419 The parsnip..forks away into fingers. 1847 D. T. Ansted Anc. World viii. 170 Rays..forking off towards the end. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. xviii. 289 The lightning forked and flashed. 1853 J. Phillips Rivers, Mountains, & Sea-coast Yorks. ix. 240 Here the road forked. b. Of corn: To sprout. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)] > sprout or put forth new growth spriteOE wrideOE brodc1175 comea1225 spirec1325 chicka1400 sprouta1400 germin?1440 germ1483 chip?a1500 spurgea1500 to put forth1530 shootc1560 spear1570 stock1574 chit1601 breward1609 pullulate1618 ysproutc1620 egerminate1623 put1623 germinate1626 sprent1647 fruticate1657 stalk1666 tiller1677 breerc1700 fork1707 to put out1731 stool1770 sucker1802 stir1843 push1855 braird1865 fibre1869 flush1877 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 265 Throw the frozen outsides into the middle till the Corn begin to fork and warm in the Couch. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Malt c. Chess. transitive. To attack (two pieces) simultaneously with the same piece. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [verb (transitive)] > tactics to shut up1474 to take upc1475 neck1597 catch1674 to discover check1688 attack1735 retreat1744 fork1745 pin1745 retake1750 guard1761 interpose1761 castle1764 retract1777 to take (a pawn) en passant1818 capture1820 decline1847 cook1851 undouble1868 unpin1878 counter1890 fidate1910 sacrifice1915 fianchetto1927 1745 E. Hoyle Piquet & Chess 61 Take care that no guarded Pawn of your Adversary's fork two of your Pieces. 1891 E. Freeborough Chess Endings 116 The Queen may be forked by a diverging check, with the Kt, preceded by B-Kt 7 ch. 1891 R. B. Swinton Chess for Beginners 73 Sometimes a Pawn can play a shrewd trick by ‘forking’ two pieces. 1899 E. E. Cunnington Mod. Chess Primer 20 There is nothing, in chess, more dangerous than to allow one of your opponent's men to..‘fork’ two of your men by one move. 1922 A. Emery Elem. Chess 68 When a knight checks, and at the same time attacks a man which can be captured with advantage on the next move the latter is said to be ‘forked’. a. Of witnesses: To disagree in their testimony. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > be unharmonious or incongruous [verb (intransitive)] > in respect of a statement or account varya1387 forka1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 17754 Þai did þaa thre men þan to sunder, And askid seluen ilkan sere, Oo þair forking fain wald þai here. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16074 In þair aun sagh þai said, oft-sith for-kid þai. b. Of the tongue [after French fourcher]: To stumble, trip. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > speak inarticulately or with a defect [verb (intransitive)] > stammer or speak hesitantly stammerc1000 wlaffe1025 stotec1325 humc1374 mafflea1387 stut1388 rattlea1398 famble14.. mammera1425 drotec1440 falterc1440 stackerc1440 hem1470 wallowa1475 tattle1481 mant1506 happer1519 trip1526 hobblea1529 hack1553 stagger1565 faffle1570 stutter1570 hem and hawk1588 ha1604 hammer1619 titubate1623 haw1632 fork1652 hacker1652 lispc1680 hesitate1706 balbutiate1731 haffle1790 hotter1828 stutter1831 ah1853 catch1889 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 203 Philoplutaries (my tongue forks it, I have mistaken..one word for another, I should have said Philosophers). 3. transitive. To make or put into the form of a fork; to make fork-shaped. †to fork the fingers: to extend them towards a person as a mark of contempt. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt by gesture scrape1561 to fork the fingers1640 to cock one's nose (up)1692 to look down one's nose (at)1721 to do a Harvey Smith1973 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > divide in two [verb (transitive)] > bifurcate bifurcate1615 fork1640 1640 Wits Recreations sig. C2 His wife..Behind him forks her fingers. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. viii. 315 The Ramus Iliacus is forked out on each side. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 348 The tail..is forked into two horns. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 376 A lever..which is forked at the lower part to receive the pendulum. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xcv. 52 The mightiest of the storms..through these parted hills hath fork'd His lightnings. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 289 Bertram..stands..with his lower limbs forked. 4. To raise or move with or as with a fork; to dig, take, or throw in, out, up, etc., with a fork. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (intransitive)] > dig delvec1000 digc1320 spit1393 fork1647 yelve1817 graft1823 spade1869 spud1889 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > dig > dig with fork fork1647 prong1785 yelve1817 1802 A. Kirkwood Jrnl. in Mem. (1856) 24 I..forked some hay for Mr. Black. 1829 Bone Manure: Rep. Doncaster Comm. Agric. Assoc. 30 Fold manure..should be forked up to a considerable height. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. iv. 156 Bang..was gobbling his last plantain, and forking up along with it..slices of cheese. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 191 The ancient practice of forking out each parsnip from the ground. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xi. 179 He..set to work forking up some weeds on a fallow. 1850 G. Glenny Hand-bk. Flower Garden 24 The border should be prepared..by forking in some peat. 1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 75/1 The beds should now be forked over. 1882 Ld. Tennyson Promise of May ii And you an' your Sally was forkin' the haäy. 5. transferred (colloquial or slang.) a. to fork out, over, or up: to give up, hand over, pay. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > pay up or out to pay out1438 to pay over1668 to shell down1801 pony1819 tip1829 to fork out, over, or up1831 to stump up1833 to put up1838 stump1841 pungle1851 to ante up1880 cough1894 to peg out1895 brass1898 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son xxxvi Fork out something better than this. 1839 Observer & Reporter May 18 The gambler should fork over his illgotten gains. 1843 Punch 5 86/2 ‘Oblige me with that hod’, and ‘Have the kindness to hand me that gimlet’, are phrases which might be well substituted for a request to ‘chuck’ or ‘fork up’ ‘this here’ and ‘that 'ere’. 1849 D. Nason Jrnl. 113 As he was the biggest man I had to fork over $1·25. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. i. 3 Fork out your balance in hand. 1866 J. C. Gregg Life in Army xv. 132 Every person..forks over his picayune. 1871 Scribner's Monthly 1 601 So the governor forked this up, though it's my selection entirely. 1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 486/1 He forked over the money. 1918 E. Pound in Lett. J. Joyce (1966) II. 424 I will fork up the remaining £20 of the fifty promised. 1932 H. Crane Let. Jan. (1965) 395 The family will just have to fork up a loan or something for me. b. (U.S.) See quots. ΚΠ 1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 231 I heard a young man..in Vermont, say,..‘Well, how he contrived to fork into her young affections, I can't tell’. 1851 B. H. Hall Coll. College Words Fork on. At Hamilton College, to fork on, to appropriate to one's self. 6. intransitive (colloquial) To protrude awkwardly. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > project or be prominent [verb (intransitive)] > awkwardly to lop out1854 fork1882 1882 Fraser's Mag. 25 532 I noted a number of heads forking over the side of the ship. 1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. II. xiv. 20 He came slowly forking up through the hatch. 1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. II. xix. 133 Leathery noses forking up out of a hedge of whisker. 7. slang. (transitive) to fork a person: to pick his pocket. Cf. fork n. 3. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Let's fork him, let us Pick that Man's Pocket. 1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue 8. intransitive (Scottish) To look out, strive for (something). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] > strive or struggle hiec888 to stand inc1175 wrag?c1225 wrestle?c1225 stretcha1375 strivec1384 pressc1390 hitc1400 wring1470 fend15.. battle1502 contend?1518 reluct1526 flichter1528 touse1542 struggle1597 to lay in1599 strain?1606 stickle1613 fork1681 sprattle1786 buffet1824 fight1859 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1710) 73 That Pauls Iniquities, mystery working, Was men, then for precedency forking. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Forkin' ‘Forkin' for siller,’..‘Forkin' for a job’. 9. Mining. (transitive) To pump (a mine) dry; to remove (water) by pumping. Cf. fork n. 11. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > remove water fork1702 unwater1769 1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 56 What signifies your Engine..if it be not capable of Sinking or Forking an Old Mine. 1859 Times 27 Apr. He had forked the heaviest waters in the whole country. 1869 West. Daily Mercury 20 Mar. They have resolved on forking the water. 1893 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Jan. 2/1 The mine has been ‘forked’. 10. To bestride or mount (a horse). U.S. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > mount (a horse or other animal) > and sit astride bestridec1000 umstridea1352 cross1760 straddle1823 fork1903 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy xix. 295 So fork that swimming horse of yours and wet your big toe again in the North Platte. 1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 245 Throw your rope and whatever it falls on, fork him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1000v.a1400 |
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