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horca — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fork noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
  • gallows noun A wooden frame used for hanging condemned prisoners.
  • pitchfork noun A long-handled farm tool with sharp tines, used for lifting and moving hay or straw.
  • scaffold noun A temporary framework of poles or tubes that workers stand on to reach high parts of a building.

Senses

horca is used for these senses in English:

  • fork Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
  • gallows A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging. [from 1300s]
  • gibbet An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display.
  • scaffold An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.

fork — full definition

  1. noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
  2. noun A point where a road, path, or river splits into two directions.
  3. noun A separate version of a software project or dataset created from an existing one.
  4. verb To split into two or more branches or directions.

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