All they have retained are the two, now separate, tines of the fork itself.These skids, as Dr Wehking calls the liberated tines, are no longer dumb pieces of iron.
The rotary plow's essential feature is a set of knives or tines rotated on a shaft by a power source.
The antlers (about 60 cm [2 feet] long) are broad, are flattened at the ends, and have a number of short tines; it is the only Old World deer with flat antlers.
The male has forward curved antlers that bear a number of unbranched tines.
The hart has long, regularly branched antlers bearing a total of 10 or more tines; an animal with 12 tines is known as a "Royal," and one with 14 tines is a "Wilson".
It gathered pace thanks to a French book, published last year, called Dîne Avec Une Fourchette: the idea of both being that if you only eat food with a fork, and prepared with a fork, you forgo the fattening, slippery delights of yoghurt, ice cream, butter et al (see forkitdiet.com for a wider array of things that aren't allowed to tickle your tines).
When her second appetizer arrived — the crab toast topped with toasted sesame seeds — she dipped the tines of her fork into a thick line of dark-green sauce that bisected the narrow rectangle of crab toast, and touched it to her tongue.
It wasn't the anti-Soviet bologna that got him, or the mausoleum made of bologna — not even the terrible portrait, made out of sausage, of the leader holding a cut-off piece of his own ear on the tines of a fork.
She pulled her lips along the silver tines to catch whatever chocolate remained there, then turned the fork upside down, ran her tongue along it.
How are you?" Carol put the weasel on the tines of a long fork and roasted it over the coals.
"Eleven years," she replied) Ira could see that she was very beautiful: short black hair; eyes a clear, reddish hazel, like orange pekoe tea; a strong aquiline nose; thick lashes that spiked out, wrought and black as the tines of a fireplace fork.
