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What is the noun for forks?

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fork
  1. A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
  2. (obsolete) A gallows.
  3. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
  4. A tuning fork.
  5. An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
  6. 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.
  7. A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
  8. (geography) Used in the names of some river tributaries, e.g. West Fork White River and East Fork White River, joining together to form the White River of Indiana
  9. (figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
  10. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
  11. (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
  12. (computer science) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.
  13. (computer science) The, or one of the, software project(s) that underwent changes in such an event; a software project split off from a main project.
  14. (Britain) Crotch.
  15. (colloquial) A forklift.
  16. The individual blades of a forklift.
  17. (cycling) In a bicycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance.
  18. Synonyms:
  19. Examples:
    1. “I took a wrong turn at the fork and ended up on a completely different road.”
forker
  1. An agricultural laborer who uses a fork.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But they let Wicklow back into the game with Aidan Forker, Tony Kernan and Michael McKenna missing goal chances.”
      “Bob Forker did a good job of addressing John's concern about his cartridge, but I'd like to add my two cents about the rifle itself.”
      Forker has compiled the ballistic data for all commercial cartridges from the.”
forkful
  1. The amount that a fork will hold.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Do you sometimes long for a taste of your mom's beef dumpling or a forkful of warm wild blueberry pie in a flaky crust?”
      “He simply stuffed a forkful of overly priced gourmet food into his mouth and chewed slowly.”
      “Mac bit into a forkful of the scrambled eggs and found them mildly spiced with a flavor he couldn't name.”
forking
forkedness
  1. The quality of being forked.
forkmaker
  1. Someone who makes forks.
forkmakers
  1. plural of forkmaker
forkfuls
forksful
forkings
forkers
  1. plural of forker
forks
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