oyster fork

American  

noun

1. a small, three-pronged fork, used especially in eating seafood.

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Example Sentences

“Gentle Reader: With a knife and fork. A fruit knife and an oyster fork, to be specific. For pity’s sake, what is this world coming to? Miss Manners doesn’t mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but feels that anyone who doesn’t have the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it into his mouth probably should not be running around loose on the streets.”

From Washington Post

Every obsidian spear point, every oyster fork, every locomotive, every place mat.

From Washington Post

And while it is not quite clear whether you are supposed to lift the meat and the vegetables from the broth onto the plate as one would with a traditional pot-au-feu — the waiters provide no guidance — or whether you are supposed to pry the marrow from its bone with the provided oyster fork and smear it on grilled bread, the pot-au-feu is brilliant and soothing.

From Los Angeles Times

It is not quite clear whether you are supposed to lift the meat and the vegetables from the broth onto the plate as one would with a traditional pot-au-feu — the servers provide no guidance — or whether you are supposed to prize the marrow from its bone with the provided oyster fork and smear it on grilled bread.

From Los Angeles Times

“That seems difficult to grasp,” she demurred, and 72 he nodded his head, abstractedly sketching lines on the damask cloth with his oyster fork.

From Project Gutenberg