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Definition of Forkful
1. as much as a fork will hold [n FORKFULS or FORKSFUL]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forkful
Literary usage of Forkful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1867)
"The horse is then started, when the forkful rises ... The person on the stack
thrusts his fork into the. forkful, and pushes it either to the right or left, ..."
2. An Italian and English Dictionary with Pronunciation and Brief Etymologies by August Hjalmar Edgren, Giuseppe Bico, John Lawrence Gerig (1901)
"-cata, F. : forkful ; crotch of the legs, ... F. : email forkful, ... F.
: table-forkful; fork-thrust, ..."
3. City Homes on Country Lanes: Philosophy and Practice of the Home-in-a-garden by William Ellsworth Smythe (1921)
"Choose a spot of ground which is hard and even, on which to work the manure, and
preferably protected from the rains. Every forkful ..."
4. Every lady's guide to her own greenhouse, hothouse, and conservatory, by a by Lady (1851)
"Any labouring man about the premises may prepare the stable dung, supposing the
heap to be on the premises ; he must shake out every forkful of it, ..."
5. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1869)
"And it made a large bulky load, but we all noticed that we did not have to lift
very hard to put up a large forkful ; whereas, of that cut in June, ..."
6. The Fertility of the Land: A Summary Sketch of the Relationship of Farm by Isaac Phillips Roberts (1898)
"... were sampled as the manure was removed, by placing every thirtieth forkful in
one of three boxes,— the first forkful in box No. 1, the next in No. ..."
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