| A Sucket is made in like manner of the carneous substance of stalks of Lettice. |
| The sucket fork was wrought with two prongs at one end of the stem and a bowl at the other. |
| When bits of sweetmeat lodged in the teeth, the sucket fork doubled as a nifty toothpick. |
| Some of these sucket forks could be folded up and carried in one's pocket. |
| It took its modern form in the 17th century with the introduction of the sucket fork, designed to convey sweetmeats to the mouth. |
| He says that this piece is a derivative of the sucket forks of the 18th century. |
