Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Divided into two parts somewhat after the manner of a fork; dichotomous, as the stem of a plant, the tongue of a snake, a deer's antler, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Divided into two parts, somewhat after the manner of a fork; dichotomous.
Examples
“And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment”
“Author Mamatas has taken a two-forked road across America this time.”
“[W. 5175.] and fear-inspiring, in his head; a two-forked beard, yellow, fairly curled, on his chin; a purple mantle with fringes and five-folded wrapped around him;”
“There are often smaller gills between the others, and sometimes they are two-forked (bifurcate), and are connected by veins.”
“The posts were turned so that the forks lay in proper position to receive the floor beams and upper rails; a two-forked post was placed with the prong C (figure 32) turned inward.”
“If I had several two-forked posts and several one-forked posts with companion posts beside them, it required some little bit of fitting to adjust them all so that the floor beams and rails would lie properly.”
“With a dozen courses open to them, any one of which might have saved the situation, they deliberately chose a thirteenth - two-forked toboggan-slide into destruction.”
“And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,”
“This two-forked boat figures in the reign of Nintoku's successor, Richu, when the latter and his concubine went on board and feasted separately, each in one fork.”
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
“The former was bearing a two-forked bough {as his weapon}, the latter a javelin; with his javelin he gave me”
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