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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FORK'ED, pp.
1. Raised, pitched or dug with a fork.
2. a. Opening into two or more parts, points or shoots; as a forked tongue; the forked lightning.
3. Having two or more meanings. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy]
2: having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" [syn: double, forked]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 13th century 1. resembling a fork especially in having one end divided into two or more branches or points <forked lightning> 2. shaped like a fork or having a forked part <a forked road>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 having a fork or forklike end or branches. 2 divergent, cleft. 3 (in comb.) having so many prongs (three-forked). Phrases and idioms: forked lightning a lightning-flash in the form of a zigzag or branching line.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fork Fork, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Forked; p. pr. & vb. n. Forking.] 1. To shoot into blades, as corn. The corn beginneth to fork. --Mortimer. 2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Forked Forked, a. 1. Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting. A serpent seen, with forked tongue. --Shak. 2. Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal. Cross forked (Her.), a cross, the ends of whose arms are divided into two sharp points; -- called also cross double fitch['e]. A cross forked of three points is a cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp points. Forked counsel, advice pointing more than one way; ambiguous advice. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. -- Fork"ed*ly, adv. -- Fork"ed*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that divides into two parts and forms a 'Y' shape can be described as forked. Jaegers are swift black birds with long forked tails. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Furcate, furcated, divaricated.

Moby Thesaurus

V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, angular, arboreal, arborescent, arboriform, bent, biforked, bifurcate, bifurcated, bisected, branched, branching, branchlike, cleft, cloven, cornered, crooked, crotched, dendriform, dendritic, dichotomous, dimidiate, divided, forking, forklike, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated, halved, hooked, jagged, knee-shaped, pointed, pronged, ramified, ramous, riven, saw-toothed, sawtooth, serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, split, tree-shaped, treelike, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, zigzag