meatfork
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.