toasting fork


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Noun1.toasting fork - long-handled fork for cooking or toasting frankfurters or bread etc. (especially over an open fire)toasting fork - long-handled fork for cooking or toasting frankfurters or bread etc. (especially over an open fire)
fork - cutlery used for serving and eating food
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toasting fork

[ˈtəʊstɪŋfɔːk] Ntostadera f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

toasting fork

nGabel fzum Brotrösten
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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"No, it's the toasting fork, with Mother's shoe on it instead of the bread.
Do have toast for tea, Polly, and let me make it with the new toasting fork; it 's such fun to play cook."
The toasting fork, which is tipped with a silver pommel bearing the inscription "A Present from the New Country from GW 1776", is being put up for auction for PS20,000.
Reverie As I gazed at the flames of the fire, I recalled for the first time in years, The long toasting fork made of brass wire And the child in me fancies she hears That sweet chink of the knife on the plate As it cut through the butter before Being rasped across toast which we ate Up in relays eager for more.
Another time she was mopping the back corridor, alone in the building, when a brass toasting fork fell to the ground.
Sophie Conran's camping bucket, complete with blanket, matches, torch, 11-I multi-tool, toasting fork, bucket and camping recipe booklet.
After a gadzillion Midsomer episodes, you may wonder why at least one or two ethnic characters haven't sauntered onto the show, before being bludgeoned to death by a toasting fork or croquet mallet.
There, the shop assistants cower in the detergent aisle as the customers, their pupils marked with the sign of a toasting fork, plunder the shelves for disposable barbecues, bags of powdered white and pink marshmallows and tubs of coleslaw the size of a municipal swimming pool.
Visitors can also see personal items that belonged to Watt, including his chair, walking stick, toasting fork and lunch basket.
Talking of fires, did toast ever taste as good as when you toasted it in front of the fire on a long toasting fork?
And 30 years ago he was convicted of wounding a woman after stripping off and attacking her with a toasting fork.