A utensil with two or more prongs, used for eating or serving food, The point at which such a bifurcation or separation occurs, An instrument or tool consisting of a handle with a shank, usually of metal, terminating in two or more prongs or tines, intransitive verb_ To shoot into blades, as corn, To divide into two or more branches, transitive verb_ To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil, [Slang] to hand or pay over, as money; to cough up