fourche

Borrowed from French fourché. Doublet of furcate and fork.

fourche (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.

• fourchee, fourchée, fourché, fourchy, furché, furchy

• “fourche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Inherited from Old French furche, forche, from Latin furca (“pitchfork”).

• IPA^(key): /fuʁʃ/

• Audio:

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fourche f (plural fourches)

1. pitchfork
2. fork (in the road etc.)
3. crotch
4. split end (hair)
5. fork (of a bicycle)

• fourche à vanner
• fourchette
• passer sous les fourches caudines

• fourché
  • → English: fourche, fourchee

• “fourche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.