subs. phr. (Winchester: obsolete).—A wooden skewer: used as a chop-stick when forks were scarce (MANSFIELD, c. 1840).
THE SILVER FORK SCHOOL, subs. phr. (obsolete literary).—A school of novelists which laid especial stress on the etiquette of the drawing room: as Theodore Hook, Lady Blessington, Mrs. A. Trollope, and Lord Lytton. [It is only within the last forty years that the old two-pronged steel fork has been ousted by cheap four-prongs in imitation of silver ware.]
