forky
Americanadjective
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At length, however, the lock gave way, and the lid flew open, when, O horror! instead of gold and jewels, she saw before her serpents with glittering eyes and forky tongues.
From The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Not with such weight, to frame the forky brand, The ponderous hammer falls from Brontês' hand.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Wolves hunt in packs, They sought for bigger game; somehow They seemed to see above her brow The forky sign of turkey tracks.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
He spoke, and high the forky trident hurl'd, Rolls clouds on clouds, and stirs the watery world, At once the face of earth and sea deforms, Swells all the winds, and rouses all the storms.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
Moving they fight; with oars and forky prows The froth is gather'd, and the water glows.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
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