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Prong   Listen
noun
Prong  n.  
1.
A sharp-pointed instrument. "Prick it on a prong of iron."
2.
The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.
3.
(Zool.)
(a)
A sharp projection, as of an antler.
(b)
The fang of a tooth.





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"Prong" Quotes from Famous Books



... broad, the way is long; What mad pursuit! What tumult wild! Scratches the besom and sticks the prong; Crush'd is the mother, and ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke
... more lively fashion, he turned almost delightedly to the girl he could not escape from. As when the wriggling eel that has been prodded by the countryman's fork, finds that no amount of wriggling will release it, to it twists in a knot around the imprisoning prong. This simile says more than I mean it to say, but those who understand similes will know ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


Words linked to "Prong" :   tine, trident, fork, projection, buckle


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