meatfork

• meat-fork, meat fork

From meat +‎ fork.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːtfɔː(ɹ)k/

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meatfork (plural meatforks)

1. A large fork for turning meat or holding it in place for carving.

   Synonyms: steak fork, carving fork

   Near-synonym: cold cuts fork

   • 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.

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