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meat-fork

meat-fork is the alternative spelling of meatfork.

Meaning of meatfork

Noun

meatfork (plural meatforks)

  1. A large fork for turning meat or holding it in place for carving.
    • 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.2000, Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life, page 15
    Synonyms:
    steak fork, carving fork, cold cuts fork

Forms of meat-fork

pluralmeat-forks

Questions about meat-fork

What is meat-fork the alternative spelling of?
Meat-fork is the alternative spelling of meatfork.

Words near meat-fork in the dictionary

  1. meat-chopper
  2. meat-choppers
  3. meat-eater
  4. meat-eaters
  5. meat-eating
  6. meat-fork
  7. meat-forks
  8. meat-pie
  9. meat-pies
  10. meat-safe
  11. meat-safe cot

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