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forked (iou)



forked adjective. ME.
[from FORK noun, verb: see -ED2, -ED1.]
Having a fork or forks or a forklike end; shaped like a fork, bifurcate, divergent, cleft. ME.
b. Of a road: making or having a fork or forks; branching. E16.
c. Having (a specified number of) prongs or forks. M16.
d. Hist. Of an arrow: having a fork-shaped arrowhead; (of an arrowhead) fork-shaped. M16.
e. Of a mountain: cleft at the summit. poet. E17.
Of an argument: ambiguous, equivocal. M16-L17.
Horned; fig. cuckolded. Now rare or obsolete. L16.
Having the lower part of the trunk divided; two-legged. rare. E17.
Special collocations: forked head a forked arrow(head). forked lightning: in the form of a zigzag or a branching line. forked tongue a lying or deceitful tongue (freq. in with a forked tongue, with forked tongue).
forkedly adverb E17.
forkedness noun E17.