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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fork \Fork\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Forked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Forking}.]
     1. To shoot into blades, as corn.
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              The corn beginneth to fork.           --Mortimer.


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     2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree,
        or a stream forks.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Forked \Forked\, a.
     1. Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into
        two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated;
        zigzag; as, the forked lighting.
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              A serpent seen, with forked tongue.   --Shak.
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     2. Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
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     {Cross forked} (Her.), a cross, the ends of whose arms are
        divided into two sharp points; -- called also {cross
        double fitch['e]}. A {cross forked of three points} is a
        cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp
        points.
  
     {Forked counsel}, advice pointing more than one way;
        ambiguous advice. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. -- {Fork"ed*ly},
        adv. -- {Fork"ed*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  forked
       adj 1: resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches;
              "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long
              branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects";
              "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning";
              "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy
              roots" [syn: {bifurcate}, {biramous}, {branched}, {forficate},
               {pronged}, {prongy}]
       2: having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double
          meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" [syn: {double}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "forked":
     V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, angular, arboreal, arborescent,
     arboriform, bent, biforked, bifurcate, bifurcated, bisected,
     branched, branching, branchlike, cleft, cloven, cornered, crooked,
     crotched, dendriform, dendritic, dichotomous, dimidiate, divided,
     forking, forklike, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated,
     halved, hooked, jagged, knee-shaped, pointed, pronged, ramified,
     ramous, riven, saw-toothed, sawtooth, serrate, sharp,
     sharp-cornered, split, tree-shaped, treelike, tridentlike,
     trifurcate, trifurcated, zigzag
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  forked adj.,vi. 1. [common after 1997, esp. in the Linux community] An
     open-source software project is said to have forked or be forked when
     the project group fissions into two or more parts pursuing separate
     lines of development (or, less commonly, when a third party unconnected
     to the project group begins its own line of development). Forking is
     considered a {Bad Thing} - not merely because it implies a lot of wasted
     effort in the future, but because forks tend to be accompanied by a
     great deal of strife and acrimony between the successor groups over
     issues of legitimacy, succession, and design direction. There is serious
     social pressure against forking. As a result, major forks (such as the
     Gnu-Emacs/XEmacs split, the fissionings of the 386BSD group into three
     daughter projects, and the short-lived GCC/EGCS split) are rare enough
     that they are remembered individually in hacker folklore. 2. [Unix;
     uncommon; prob. influenced by a mainstream expletive] Terminally slow,
     or dead. Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an
     inadvertent {fork bomb}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  forked
       
          (Unix; probably after "fucked") Terminally slow, or dead.
          Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an
          inadvertent {fork bomb}.
       
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