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Pronged

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prong  (prông, prng)
n.
1. A thin, pointed, projecting part: a pitchfork with four prongs.
2. A branch; a fork: the two prongs of a river.
tr.v. pronged, prong·ing, prongs
To pierce with or as if with a thin, pointed, projecting part.
[Middle English pronge, pointed instrument, pain, from Medieval Latin pronga, of Germanic origin.]
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Adj.1.pronged - having prongs or tines; usually used in combination; "a three-tined fork"
tined
divided - separated into parts or pieces; "opinions are divided"
2.pronged - resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "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"
bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, prongy
divided - separated into parts or pieces; "opinions are divided"
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With huge pronged poles they pitched hissing masses of blubber into the scalding pots, or stirred up the fires beneath, till the snaky flames darted, curling, out of the doors to catch them by the feet.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
And when Bert saw a man on the outskirts of the crowd run to a haycart and get a brightly pronged pitch-fork, and a blue-clad soldier unbuckle his belt, his rising doubt whether this little town was after all such a good place for a landing became a certainty.
The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context
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