"forked" in the verb sense
1. pitchfork, fork
lift with a pitchfork
"pitchfork hay"
2. fork
place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
3. branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate
divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
"The road forks"
4. fork
shape like a fork
"She forked her fingers"
"forked" in the adjective sense
1. bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy
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"
2. double, forked
having two meanings with intent to deceive
"a sly double meaning"
"spoke with forked tongue"
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