🍴 An eating utensil 🔀 A split point 🌾 A digging tool 🌾 To lift with tool 🔀 To split 💻 A project copy ♟️ To attack two pieces

to fork

4 8.4

To attack two or more opponent pieces at the same time with one move

verb
/fɔrk/

Jargon

: hacer un tenedor

In the championship match, he successfully forked his opponent's two rooks with his knight.

Examples

Give him the knight to check E7, forking his king and his rook.

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
After placing his pieces, he made a move that forked the opponent's queen and bishop.
G takes F6, forking his bishop and rook.

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
During the game, she forked her opponent's king and pawn with a clever strategy.

Phrasal Verbs

to fork over

Informal

15 6.1

To give money to someone after they ask or force you

to stick a fork in

Informal

4 8.4

To check if food is cooked by poking it with a fork or to say something is finished

to fork out

Informal

3 7.5

To pay money when you do not want to

to fork up

Informal

1 8.1

To pay money unwillingly

to fork off

5.9

To leave a main road and go in a different direction

to fork off

Specialized

7.4

To copy a code project so someone can work on it separately

Compounds

fork in the road

11 3.7

A place where a road divides into two paths or a time to choose between two options

tuning fork

4 4.5

A small metal tool with two prongs that makes a clear sound to help find the right musical note

salad fork

3 1.4

A small fork with short, wide prongs for eating salad

barbecue fork

1 2.0

A long two-pronged metal tool for lifting and turning food on a grill

toasting fork

1 6.3

A long-handled fork used to toast food like bread over a fire

carving fork

2.7

A large kitchen tool with two long points used to hold meat while you cut it

skeleton fork fern

Specialized

9.9

A fern with thin yellow branches and tiny leaves that grows on trees or the ground in warm forests

Surface Forms

fork infinitive

forked past

forked past participle

forking present participle

forks third person singular

Etymology

Fork in chess is a helpful image from the Latin furca meaning 'pitchfork': like prongs that catch two things, a chess fork is one move that attacks two or more pieces at once.