Forked
[fɔːkt] or [fɔrkt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Fork
(a.) Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.
(a.) Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
Editor: Tess
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Furcate, furcated.
Editor: Nell
Examples
- They have immense, flat, forked cushions of feet, that make a track in the dust like a pie with a slice cut out of it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Was pitch-forked into the Navy, but has not circumnavigated. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Some of these were so heavy that a forked support had to be driven into the ground, and two men were needed, one to hold and aim, the other to prime and fire. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He asserts that the function of the forked twig in the hands of the water-finder may be to act as an indicator of some material or other mental disturbance within him. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We had passed but a little way beyond our left when the road forked. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Nell