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three-forked

three-forked adjective: having three forks or prongs.

Adjective

three-forked (not comparable)

  1. Having three forks or prongs.
    • his threeforkt Pyke / He stearnly shooke, and therewith fierce did stryke / The raging billowes […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    trifurcate

Synonyms of three-forked

Questions about three-forked

What does three-forked mean?
Three-forked means having three forks or prongs.
What part of speech is three-forked?
Three-forked is an adjective.

Words near three-forked in the dictionary

  1. three-fifths
  2. three-finger salute
  3. three-finger salutes
  4. three-fisted
  5. three-foiled
  6. three-forked
  7. three-four time
  8. three-four times
  9. three-fourths
  10. three-halfpence
  11. three-halfpennies

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