Implements
- Broadfork, for breaking up the soil
- Garden fork, a pronged tool designed for digging
- Heretic's fork, a historical torture device
- Bicycle fork, the part of a bicycle to which the front wheel is attached
- Motorcycle fork, the portion of a motorcycle that holds the front wheel
- Tuning fork, a vibrating device used to tune musical instruments
- Bident, a two-pronged spear-like weapon
- Pitchfork, a tined farm implement used to lift and pitch hay and perform other tasks
- Trident, a three-pronged spear-like weapon
- Winnowing fork, a tined implement used to throw mixtures of grain and chaff into windy air, and thus separate them
- Military fork, a pole weapon used in war between the 15th and 19th centuries
- Fork (road), a type of intersection where the road splits
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Famous quotes containing the word implements:
“Neighboring farmers and visitors at White Sulphur drove out occasionally to watch ‘those funny Scotchmen’ with amused superiority; when one member imported clubs from Scotland, they were held for three weeks by customs officials who could not believe that any game could be played with ‘such elongated blackjacks or implements of murder.’”
—For the State of West Virginia, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I cut my teeth as the black raccoon—
For implements of battle.”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)