A large fork for turning meat or holding it in place for carving.
2000, Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli,O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life, page15:
Gilbert grasped a carving knife and a steel in his great hands, and after setting up a briefly appetizing clangor, speared the roast to its heart with the long tines of ameatfork and carved off rich savory slabs of the rare beef.
