Noun : Bear left at the fork in the road.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : Turn left where the road forks. ,Fork left and continue to the top of the hill.    From Dictionary.com. 

Lighting, caused by collisions of volcanic dust, is seen forking from the lava and ash erupting from the centre of the volcano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photo Gallery of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull Volcano | Impact Lab] Reference

It is unfortunate, and one can only hope that in the long term the forking proves worthwile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet MySQL] Reference

This is, as most of you probably know, called forking, and is very common in the open source community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Pingdom] Reference

A variant of this, specific to projects hosted on Bitbucket, is "forking".    From Wordnik.com.  [OdeToCode - The Best Links] Reference

The solution to both problems is to allow a kind of "forking" similar to open-source software practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [P2P Foundation] Reference

My apologies for "forking" the party, but plans were neither coordinated nor communicated particularly well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Ubuntu] Reference

    “After dinner,” he agreed, smiling, forking a carrot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loose Lips Sink Ships] Reference

Pinnæ roundish-ovate, crenate, with indistinct and forking midveins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

The beards face him braced at attention, forking the word in the cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inaccrochable] Reference

Do some of us still hesitate at this forking of the roads, irresolute?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference

I mean, he put a spike in that -- forking that, too, in that whole argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2008] Reference

Bifurcation: a forking or division into two: the point at which a forking occurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

He came to this forking of the road, and the battle was a fierce one, for self dies hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference

It's going to be less than that so they're not exactly forking over a great deal of cash here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2006] Reference

You know, a lot of people probably will be just forking it right over to the speeding tickets.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2006] Reference

But think of the delight of cutting your meat with Edward's present! forking ditto with Mary's!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference

The forking of the lower extremity of the cleft suggests the starting of the fissure from above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

Give the land a light forking, not deep enough to bring up the manure, and make the surface level.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

"I really don't want you to read it again," her publicist says, before reluctantly forking it over.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Beyonce Wants] Reference

Even after feeling "twinges," he was forking butter pats onto his bread plate at lunch last Monday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart Of The Matter] Reference

Then I darted inside to pay -- only to have to wait in line for the privilege of forking over money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Your Tongue, Young Man] Reference

I'd bet you have better things to do with your money than forking it over to your cell-phone provider.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Year's Resolution: Cut Those Cell-Phone Bills] Reference

This article, "Oracle lawsuit unlikely to prompt Java forking," was originally published at InfoWorld. com.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oracle lawsuit unlikely to prompt Java forking] Reference

We rode north to the Estaminet de l'Epinette, passing a road which forking to the right led to a German barricade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference

Then Shann heard the triumphant squall from Togi, saw her brown body still on the torn tail just above the forking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Over Warlock] Reference

Such is the life of a U.S. contractor in Iraq, and one reason U.S. taxpayers are forking over top dollar to have them there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The $87 Billion Money Pit] Reference

You could download the McDonald's application, for example, then drive through the restaurant without ever forking over cash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Next...] Reference

But still, I felt restless … Perhaps there exists an even better lemon cake than this one, I thought, forking it into my mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why there's more to cookbooks than recipes] Reference

In two or three days after forking up, it will be necessary to take off the box and light, for the purpose of making the bed even.    From Wordnik.com.  [The art of promoting the growth of the cucumber and melon in a series of directions for the best means to be adopted in bringing them to a complete state of perfection] Reference

Corruption is reportedly so pervasive that refugees are unable to even enter the agency's Nairobi office without forking over baksheesh.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nairobi Connection] Reference

I did not deal with forking, spraying, cutlassing, weeding, and so forth, as it would lead us too far into purely technical discussions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer] Reference

On the sixth day of the fast, I stood at the edge of the meditation room trying not to think about the sharp pains now forking my belly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference