Meanings
adjectivethree-forked (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving 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, →OCLCSynonyms: trifurcate
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving three forks or prongs.
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