fork chuck (forkchuk)

An appendage to a turning-lathe, so called from the fact that the part which is screwed on the mandrel has on the outer side a square hole in which forked pieces of iron of different sizes, according to the strength required, are placed when in use. forked (fôr'ked or förkt), a. [ Unaccommodated (unclothed], man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Shak ., Lear, iii. 4. Pope , Prol. to Satires, 1. 231. He saw No pale sheet-lightnings from afar, but fork'd Of the near storm, and aiming at his head. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. Proud as Apollo on his forked hill. 2. Ambiguous; equivocal. Give forked counsel; take provoking gold On either hand, and put it up. B. Jonson, Volpone, i. 1. fork or dung - fork. See pitchfork. The peasants urge their harvest, ply the fork With double toil, and shiver at their work. Cowper, Table-Talk, 1. 214. 2. Something resembling a fork in form. (a) A tuning-fork. (b) A fork-chuck. (c) Milit.: (1+) A weapon for thrusting, with a long handle and two points or prongs. Also called war - fork. (2) A rest for a heavy musket used in the sixteenth century. See croc. (d) In clock - making, a bifurcation fixed at right angles to the end of the crutch which descends from the pallet-arbor. The fork embraces the pendulum-rod, and transfers the motion of its vibrations to the crutch and the pallets. 3. One of the parts into which anything is divided by bifurcation; a forking branch or division; a prong or shoot: as, the forks of a road or stream; Clark's fork of Columbia river; a fork of lightning. IMG:content-1703.png:[blocks in formation] two points directed forward, as distinguished from barbs. forkine (fôr'ki-nes), n. The quality or state IMG:content-1704.png:[blocks in formation] somewhat long in the fork, he yet sat rather tall in the 61. A gibbet; in the plural, the gallows. See IMG:content-1705.png:[blocks in formation] coupling. E. H. Knight. forky (for'ki), a. [ cate. At each Approach they lash their forky Stings. Congrere, Semele, ii. 1. The last, and trustiest of the four, On high his forky pennon bore. Scott , Marmion, i. 8. forlorn forlana (for-lä'nä), n. [It. dial.] 1. A Venetian dance.- 2. Music written for such a dance, or in its rhythm, which is sextuple and quick. Also furlano. forlayt (for-la'), v. t. [Also forelay; irreg., after the supposed analogy of verbs prop. in for-, from ' lie in wait for '; lay, tr., for lie; cf. way lay. Cf. forlie, differently formed.] To lie in wait for; ambush. He, being many times forelaid by the trains of traitors. Holland, tr. of Ammianus (1609). And lastly, how cunningly doth he forelay their confidence in the Almighty, protesting not to bee come up thither without the Lord. Bp. Hall , Hezekiah and Sennacherib. Dryden, Pal. and Arc., i. 493. forleavet, v. t. [ME. forleven , forlearen (pp. for left , forlaft ); for -1 + leavel .] To leave behind; abandon; give up. An ambush'd thief forelays a traveller. A theef of venisoun that hath forlaft His licorousne e, and al his theves craft, Can kepe a forest best of any man. Chaucer, Doctor's Tale, 1. 83. forlendt, v. t. [ Improp.forelend; As if that life to lo e they had forelent , And cared not to spare that should be shortly spent. Spenser, F. Q., IV. iii. 6.