fourche

Borrowed from French.

fourche (not comparable)

1. Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.

• fourche in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

From Old French furche, forche, from Latin fūrca (“pitchfork”).

• IPA^(key): /fuʁʃ/

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fourche f (plural fourches)

1. pitchfork
2. fork (in the road etc.)
3. crotch
4. split end (hair)
5. fork (of a bicycle)

• fourchette

• → English: fourche

• “fourche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).