[f. FORK v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. FORK.
a. 1300. [see FORK v. 2 a].
1866. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, xxxiii. At this forking of the street there was a large space.
1871. L. Stephen, Playgr. Europe, iii. (1894), 72. The Schreckhörner form a ridge of rocky peaks, forking into two ridges about its centre, the groundplan of which may thus be compared to the letter Y.
1884. Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner., 314. Where the branching appears and remains as a forking of the main axis, the whole bundle-system also divides into two parts.
