double, forked
(adjective) having two meanings with intent to deceive; “a sly double meaning”; “spoke with forked tongue”
bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
forked
That splits into two or more directions, or parts.
• forken
forked
simple past tense and past participle of fork
Source: Wiktionary
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 fitché. 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.
Fork, n. Etym: [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. Fourch, Furcate.]
1. An instrument consisting consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
2. Anything furcate or like of a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
3. One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart. Shak. A thunderbolt with three forks. Addison.
4. The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.
5. The gibbet. [Obs.] Bp. Butler. Fork beam (Shipbuilding), a half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur.
– Fork chuck (Wood Turning), a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work.
– Fork head. (a) The barbed head of an arrow. (b) The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint.
– In fork. (Mining) A mine is said to be in fork, or an engine to "have the water in fork," when all the water is drawn out of the mine. Ure.
– The forks of a river or a road, the branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place.
Fork, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Forked; p. pr. & vb. n. Forking.]
1. To shoot into blades, as corn. The corn beginneth to fork. Mortimer. 1
2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
Fork, v. t.
Definition: To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil. Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart. Prof. Wilson. To fork over or out, to hand or pay over, as money. [Slang] G. Eliot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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