These are the meanings of the letters FORWORK when you unscramble them.
- Fork (n.)
An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
- Fork (n.)
Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
- Fork (n.)
One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- Fork (n.)
The gibbet.
- Fork (n.)
The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.
- Fork (v. i.)
To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
- Fork (v. i.)
To shoot into blades, as corn.
- Fork (v. t.)
To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
- Frow (a.)
Brittle.
- Frow (n.)
A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.
- Frow (n.)
A dirty woman; a slattern.
- Frow (n.)
A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman.
- Roof (n.)
That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.
- Roof (n.)
The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.
- Roof (n.)
The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- Roof (v. t.)
To cover with a roof.
- Roof (v. t.)
To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.
- Rook (n.)
A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.
- Rook (n.)
A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
- Rook (n.)
Mist; fog. See Roke.
- Rook (n.)
One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
- Rook (v. i.)
To squat; to ruck.
- Rook (v. t. & i.)
To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
- Woof (n.)
Texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof.
- Woof (n.)
The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.
- Work (n.)
Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.
- Work (n.)
Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.
- Work (n.)
Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.
- Work (n.)
Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.
- Work (n.)
Ore before it is dressed.
- Work (n.)
Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.
- Work (n.)
Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery.
- Work (n.)
Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.
- Work (n.)
That which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat.
- Work (n.)
The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg.
- Work (n.)
The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work.
- Work (n.)
The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.
- Work (n.)
To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.
- Work (n.)
To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea.
- Work (n.)
To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.
- Work (n.)
To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.
- Work (n.)
To ferment, as a liquid.
- Work (n.)
To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth.
- Work (v. t.)
To cause to ferment, as liquor.
- Work (v. t.)
To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
- Work (v. t.)
To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead.
- Work (v. t.)
To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.
- Work (v. t.)
To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion.
- Work (v. t.)
To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
- Work (v. t.)
To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine.