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English
Etymology
From meat + fork.
Pronunciation
Noun
meatfork (plural meatforks)
- A large fork for turning meat or holding it in place for carving.
2000, Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life, page 15:Gilbert grasped a carving knife and a steel in his great hands, and after setting up a briefly appetizing clangor, speared the roast to its heart with the long tines of a meatfork and carved off rich savory slabs of the rare beef.
- Synonyms: steak fork, carving fork
- Near-synonym: cold cuts fork
Translations
large fork for turning meat or holding it in place for carving
— see carving forkAnagrams