Obs. Also 5 forkette. [? f. FORK sb. + -ET; cf. F. fourchette table-fork.]
1. A small fork. Also, a prong of a fork.
1583. Hollyband, Campo di Fior, 209. Picke not thy teeth with a forkette.
1611. Cotgr., Fourcheon, a forket; the tooth, or graine of a forke.
2. (See quot.)
1708. Phil. Trans., XXVI. 77–8. Specimens of all the following figur’d Fossils…. 7. Bidentula. The Forket.
