fork

Noun

• the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk

• an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs

• the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
  • they took the south fork
    
  • he climbed into the crotch of a tree
    

• the act of branching out or dividing into branches

• cutlery used for serving and eating food

Verb

• shape like a fork
  • She forked her fingers
    

• divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
  • The road forks
    

• place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces

• lift with a pitchfork
  • pitchfork hay
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  crotch , branching , ramification , forking , branch , ramify , furcate , separate , pitchfork