Real Dictionary

fork
If a road, path, or river forks, it forms a fork.
countable noun: A fork in a road, path, or river is a point at which it divides into two parts and forms a ' Y' shape.
countable noun: A fork is a tool used for eating food which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end.
countable noun: A garden fork is a tool used for breaking up soil which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end.
verb: If you fork food into your mouth or onto a plate, you put it there using a fork.
verb: If you fork in a particular direction when you are travelling along a road or path, you choose one of the forks in it and travel down it.
verb: If you fork something such as manure or hay, you move it from one place to another using a large garden fork.

fork in American English
an instrument of greatly varying size with a handle at one end and two or more pointed prongs at the other: forks are variously used as eating utensils and for pitching hay, breaking up soil, etc.
intransitive verb: to divide into branches
noun: 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
transitive verb: to pierce, raise, pitch, dig, etc., with a fork

fork in British English
noun: 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
verb: to pick up, dig, etc, with a fork

fork in Hospitality
noun: A fork is a tool used for eating food which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end.