FORKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forked mean? 

• FORKED (adjective)
  The adjective FORKED has 2 senses:

1. resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches

2. having two meanings with intent to deceive

  Familiarity information: FORKED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches

Synonyms:

bifurcate; biramous; branched; forficate; fork-like; forked; pronged; prongy

Context example:

horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots

Similar:

divided (separated into parts or pieces)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having two meanings with intent to deceive

Synonyms:

double; forked

Context example:

spoke with forked tongue

Similar:

ambiguous; equivocal (open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead)

 Context examples 

I put the forked metal to my ears and listened.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Through the bushes to that forked ash.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wind fanned the fire, and the cottage was quickly enveloped by the flames, which clung to it and licked it with their forked and destroying tongues.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Well, it is marked as a forked cave, and in the darkness we passed the fork before the torches were lit. On the right side as we go out we should find the longer arm.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a tall, lusty, middle-aged man with a ruddy face, a brown forked beard shot with gray, and a broad Flanders hat set at the back of his head.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amid a thunder of cheering from cog and from galleys the forked pennon fluttered upon the forecastle, and the galley, sweeping round, came slowly back, as the slaves who rowed it learned the wishes of their new masters.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now, could Sir Nigel have shown the bachelles of land which the laws of rank required, he might well have cut his forked pennon into a square banner, and taken such a following into the field as would have supported the dignity of a banneret.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Banneret or bachelor, square pennon or forked, I would not give a denier for the difference, and the less since Sir John Chandos, chosen flower of English chivalry, is himself but a humble knight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)