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Forked   /fɔrkt/   Listen
Forked

adjective
1.
Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches.  Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, pronged, prongy.  "Long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects" , "A forked river" , "A forked tail" , "Forked lightning" , "Horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"
2.
Having two meanings with intent to deceive.  Synonym: double.  "Spoke with forked tongue"


Fork

verb
(past & past part. forked; pres. part. forking)
1.
Lift with a pitchfork.  Synonym: pitchfork.
2.
Place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces.
3.
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.  Synonyms: branch, furcate, ramify, separate.
4.
Shape like a fork.



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"Forked" Quotes from Famous Books



... few seconds of silence, in which the eyes of the two men met and told each other a good deal, he strode to the doorway, pushed aside the plank which served for a door, and went out into the storm. He did not feel the rain beating upon his head: he did not hear the thunder, nor see the forked lightning that played without intermission in the darkened sky; he was conscious only of the intolerable fact that he was shut up in a narrow corner of the earth, in daily, almost hourly, companionship with the ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... the caravan so as not to be hindered and inconvenienced by its slow and cumbrous movements. A ride of three miles through the old forest brought them to the open, hilly country. Here the road forked. And here the family were ...
— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... Holden, Schaeberle, and Keeler from their observations of Uranus in 1889-90 with the potent instrument on Mount Hamilton. Shadings, it is true, were almost always, though faintly, seen; but they appeared under an anomalous, possibly an illusory aspect. They consisted, not of parallel, but of forked bands.[1131] ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
... he has the forked tongue of the serpent, and like all the pale-faces, he is the enemy of the ...
— The Phantom of the River • Edward S. Ellis
... of the new canoe. He had made the paddles, and had cut the forked sticks that would be needed to force the boat through ...
— Two Indian Children of Long Ago • Frances Taylor


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