Definitions for forked

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forked forked

Spelling: [fawrkt, fawr-kid]

IPA: /fɔrkt, ˈfɔr kɪd/

Forked is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in forked (defkor).

Definitions for forked

noun

1. an instrument having two or more prongs or tines, for holding, lifting, etc., as an implement for handling food or any of various agricultural tools.
2. something resembling or suggesting this in form.
3. tuning fork.
4. Machinery. yoke1 (def 9).
5. a division into branches.
6. the point or part at which a thing, as a river or a road, divides into branches:
7. either of the branches into which a thing divides.
8. Horology. (in a lever escapement) the forked end of the lever engaging with the ruby pin.
9. a principal tributary of a river.
10. the support of the front wheel axles of a bicycle or motorcycle, having the shape of a two-pronged fork.
11. the barbed head of an arrow.

Idioms

1. to speak with / have a forked tongue, to speak deceitfully; attempt to deceive.

adjective

1. having a fork or fork-like branches.
2. zigzag, as lightning.

Verb phrases

1. fork over/out/up, Informal. to hand over; deliver; pay:

verb (used with object)

1. to pierce, raise, pitch, dig, etc., with a fork.
2. to make into the form of a fork.
3. Chess. to maneuver so as to place (two opponent's pieces) under simultaneous attack by the same piece.
4. Digital Technology. to copy (the source code) from a piece of software and develop a new version independently, with the result of producing two unique pieces of software.

verb (used without object)

1. to divide into branches:
2. to turn as indicated at a fork in a road, path, etc.:

Origin of forked

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at fork, -ed³

Examples for forked

The gills are decurrent, distant, rather thick, often forked.

And I forked over too much money for a polka dot shirt dress that was met with admiration from my coworkers.

For there was a forked road for Trudy as well as for Mary Faithful.

The paper apologized and forked over an undisclosed sum in “damages.”

This is the story of how the swallow's tail came to be forked.

One commenter summed up these sentiments: forked tongue: You mean you think any of us actually [i]watched[/i] it?

It was good to think that women had forked roads these days.

“Whichever administration lawyer wrote this was having the president speak with forked tongue,” Kirk said.

The gills are close, decurrent, whitish, some of them forked at the base.

A crack like a flash of forked lightning had shot across the face of the stone.