fish fork

American  

noun

1. a small fork having usually three tines, used for eating fish at table.

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Example Sentences

This wasn’t some obscure, draconian fish fork matter.

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2013

The nearer he came the bigger his horns looked; each palm was like an enormous silver fish fork with twenty prongs.

From The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories by Mathiews, Franklin K.

Fish is eaten with a silver fish fork.

From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Germain, Walter

The oyster fork is placed at the right of the soup spoon, the fish fork at the left of the other forks.

From The Complete Home by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)

If there is an entrée, the fork for this course is placed between the fish fork and that for the roast and the salad fork is left to be brought in later.

From Etiquette by Post, Emily