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A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
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A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil.
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A gallows.
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A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
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A tuning fork.
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An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
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One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
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A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
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Used in the names of some river tributaries.
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West Fork White River and East Fork White River join together to form the White River of Indiana.
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A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
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The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
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A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
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The splitting of a software development effort into two or more separate projects, especially in free and open-source software.
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Any of the software projects resulting from such a split.
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LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.
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(cryptocurrency, by extension) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
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The crotch.
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A forklift.
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Are you qualified to drive a fork?
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The set of blades of a forklift, on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
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In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
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The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.
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The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
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