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Definition of Pronged
1. Adjective. Having prongs or tines; usually used in combination. "A three-tined fork"
2. Adjective. Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches. "Horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"
Similar to: Divided
Derivative terms: Prong
Definition of Pronged
1. a. Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork.
Definition of Pronged
1. Adjective. (chiefly in combination) Having (a specified number or type of) prongs ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pronged
1. prong [v] - See also: prong
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pronged
Literary usage of Pronged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spell of the Yukon, and Other Verses by Robert William Service (1907)
"THE RHYME OF THE REMITTANCE MAN There's a four-pronged buck a-swinging in the
shadow of my cabin, And it roamed the velvet valley till to-day ; But 1 ..."
2. The Spell of the Yukon, and Other Verses by Robert William Service (1907)
"THE RHYME OF THE REMITTANCE MAN There's a four-pronged buck a-swinging in the
shadow of my cabin, And it roamed the velvet valley till to-day; But I tracked ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic & Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1852)
"... A three-pronged dung-fork. North. MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. .18, f. 68 (3) To seize ;
to embrace. (Л.-S.) And holde him stille with alle ..."
4. Progressive Furnace Heating by Alfred Grant King, William Neubecker (1914)
"Determining the Unknown Diameter in an Unequal Two pronged Fork Fig. 178 shows
an unequal two pronged fork whose branches A and B are 7 and 10 inches ..."
5. Progressive Furnace Heating by Alfred Grant King, William Neubecker (1914)
"Determining the Unknown Diameter in an Unequal Two pronged Fork Fig. 178 shows
an unequal two pronged fork whose branches A and B are 7 and 10 inches ..."
6. Among the Indians of Guiana: Being Sketches Chiefly Anthropologic from the by Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn (1883)
"... a Three-pronged Fish Arrow— Hook and Line—Fish Traps—Turtle Arrows—Iguana
Shooting—Guns— Game Arrows: Iron-headed Game Arrows; Bamboo-headed Arrows ..."
7. A New Beginning: Recasting the U.S.-Japan Economic Relationship by Bruce Stokes (2000)
"... A MULTI-pronged STRATEGY US economic policy toward Japan must necessarily be
two-pronged: short-term and long-term, macroeconomic and microeconomic, ..."
8. Triangulation Applied to Sheet Metal Pattern Cutting: A Comprehensive by Fred SMith Kidder (1917)
"A Two pronged FITTING WHICH CAN BE MADE IN ONE PIECE. Fig. 40. Pictorial View of
a Two-pronged Fork. A two pronged fitting as illustrated at Fig. ..."
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