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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Fork \Fork\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Forked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forking}.] 1. To shoot into blades, as corn. [1913 Webster] The corn beginneth to fork. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] 2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Fork \Fork\, v. t. To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil. [1913 Webster] Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart. --Prof. Wilson. [1913 Webster] {To fork over} {To fork out}, to hand or pay over, as money; to {cough up}. [Slang] --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Fork \Fork\ (f[^o]rk), n. [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. {Fourch['e]}, {Furcate}.] 1. An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used for piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart. --Shak. [1913 Webster] A thunderbolt with three forks. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 4. The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road. [1913 Webster] 5. The gibbet. [Obs.] --Bp. Butler. [1913 Webster] {Fork beam} (Shipbuilding), a half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur. {Fork chuck} (Wood Turning), a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work. {Fork head}. (a) The barbed head of an arrow. (b) The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint. {In fork}. (Mining) A mine is said to be in fork, or an engine to "have the water in fork," when all the water is drawn out of the mine. --Ure. {The forks of a river} or {The forks of a road}, the branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bracket \Brack"et\, n. [Cf. OF. braguette codpiece, F. brayette, Sp. bragueta, also a projecting mold in architecture; dim. fr. L. bracae breeches; cf. also, OF. bracon beam, prop, support; of unknown origin. Cf. {Breeches}.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Arch.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office. [1913 Webster] Note: This is the more general word. See {Brace}, {Cantalever}, {Console}, {Corbel}, {Strut}. [1913 Webster] 2. (Engin. & Mech.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles. [1913 Webster] 3. (Naut.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support. [1913 Webster] 4. (Mil.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage. [1913 Webster] 5. (Print.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also {crotchet}. [1913 Webster] 6. A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. [1913 Webster] 7. (Gunnery) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called {fork}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {Bracket light}, a gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall, column, etc. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: fork n 1: cutlery used for serving and eating food 2: the act of branching out or dividing into branches [syn: {branching}, {ramification}, {fork}, {forking}] 3: the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches; "they took the south fork"; "he climbed into the crotch of a tree" [syn: {fork}, {crotch}] 4: an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs 5: the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk [syn: {crotch}, {fork}] v 1: lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay" [syn: {pitchfork}, {fork}] 2: place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces 3: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" [syn: {branch}, {ramify}, {fork}, {furcate}, {separate}] 4: shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers" From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: fork In the open-source community, a fork is what occurs when two (or more) versions of a software package's source code are being developed in parallel which once shared a common code base, and these multiple versions of the source code have irreconcilable differences between them. This should not be confused with a development branch, which may later be folded back into the original source code base. Nor should it be confused with what happens when a new distribution of Linux or some other distribution is created, because that largely assembles pieces than can and will be used in other distributions without conflict. Forking is uncommon; in fact, it is so uncommon that individual instances loom large in hacker folklore. Notable in this class were the Emacs/XEmacs fork, the GCC/EGCS fork (later healed by a merger) and the forks among the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD operating systems.