[fawrk] 
| 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. yoke 1 (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: Bear left at the fork in the road. |
| 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. |
| 12. | to pierce, raise, pitch, dig, etc., with a fork. |
| 13. | to make into the form of a fork. |
| 14. | Chess. to maneuver so as to place (two opponent's pieces) under simultaneous attack by the same piece. |
| 15. | to divide into branches: Turn left where the road forks. |
| 16. | to turn as indicated at a fork in a road, path, etc.: Fork left and continue to the top of the hill. |
| 17. | fork over or out or up, Informal. to hand over; deliver; pay: Fork over the money you owe me! |
fork (sth) over
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fork over
Also, fork out or up. Hand over, pay up. For example, It's time you forked over what you owe, or He forked out a hundred for that meal, or Fork up or we'll sue. [Slang; early 1800s[