A Fork

1. A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.Synonym: pitchfork
2. A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil.
3. (obsolete) A gallows.
4. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
5. A tuning fork.
6. An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
7. 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.
8. A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
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. (software) The splitting of a software development effort into two or more separate projects, especially in free and open-source software.
13. (software) Any of the software projects resulting from such a split.
14. (cryptocurrencies, by extension) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.Hyponyms: hard fork, soft fork
15. (Britain) The crotch.
16. (colloquial) A forklift.
17. The set of blades of a forklift, on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
18. (cycling, motorcycling) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
19. The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.Synonyms: swell, pommel