meatfork

plural meatforks · alternative meat-fork · alternative meat fork

1. A large fork for turning meat or holding it in place for carving.

   Gilbert grasped a carving knife and a steel in his great hands, and after setting up a briefly appetizing clangor, speared the roast to its heart with the long tines of a meatfork and carved off rich savory slabs of the rare beef.

   2000, Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life, page 15

   Synonyms: steak fork, carving fork, cold cuts fork