About The Word Forked
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Forked
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What's The Definition Of Forked?
[adj] having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue"
[adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Forked: ambiguous | bifurcate | biramous | branched | divided | double | equivocal | forficate | pronged | prongy Related Terms | Find terms related to Forked: akimbo | angular | arboreal | arborescent | arboriform | bent | biforked | bifurcate | bifurcated | bisected | branched | branching | branchlike | cleft | cloven | cornered | crooked | crotched | dendriform | dendritic | dichotomous | dimidiate | divided | forking | forklike | furcal | furcate | geniculate | geniculated | halved | hooked | jagged | knee-shaped | pointed | pronged | ramified | ramous | riven | sawtooth | saw-toothed | serrate | sharp | sharp-cornered | split | treelike | tree-shaped | tridentlike | trifurcate | trifurcated | V-shaped | Y-shaped | zigzag See Also | Forked In Webster's Dictionary \Forked\, a.
1. Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into
two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated;
zigzag; as, the forked lighting.
A serpent seen, with forked tongue. --Shak.
2. Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
{Cross forked} (Her.), a cross, the ends of whose arms are
divided into two sharp points; -- called also {cross
double fitch['e]}. A {cross forked of three points} is a
cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp
points.
{Forked counsel}, advice pointing more than one way;
ambiguous advice. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. -- {Fork"ed*ly},
adv. -- {Fork"ed*ness}, n.
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