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forkful

[fawrk-fool]

noun, plural fork·fuls.

the amount a fork can hold.

Origin:
1635–45; fork + -ful, probably on the model of spoonful

Usage note
See -ful.

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fork (fɔːk)

—n
1.	a small usually metal implement consisting of two, three, or four long thin prongs on the end of a handle, used for lifting food to the mouth or turning it in cooking, etc
2.	an agricultural tool consisting of a handle and three or four metal prongs, used for lifting, digging, etc
3.	a pronged part of any machine, device, etc
4.	of a road, river, etc
	a. a division into two or more branches
	b. the point where the division begins
	c. such a branch
5.	chiefly (US) the main tributary of a river
6.	chess a position in which two pieces are forked

—vb
7.	(tr) to pick up, dig, etc, with a fork
8.	(tr) chess to place (two enemy pieces) under attack with one of one's own pieces, esp a knight
9.	(tr) to make into the shape of a fork
10.	(intr) to be divided into two or more branches
11.	to take one or other branch at a fork in a road, river, etc

[Old English forca, from Latin furca]

'forkful

—n

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"He bundles every forkful in its place,
And tags and numbers it for future reference,
So he can find and easily dislodge it
In the unloading. Silas does that well.
He takes it out in bunches like birds' nests."

-Robert Frost

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