¹ fork noun

• a small tool with two or more pointed parts (called prongs or tines) used for picking up and eating food
• a garden tool with two or more prongs used for lifting and digging soil
• a place where something (such as a road or river) divides into two parts

² fork verb

• to divide into two parts
• to pay or give (money)—usually + over or out
• to lift or throw (something) with a fork