Three-forked

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having three forks or prongs. not-comparable

    "his threeforkt Pyke / He stearnly shooke, and therewith fierce did stryke / The raging billowes […]"

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"As when a snake, that through the winter's cold / lay swoln and hidden in the ground from sight, / gorged with rank herbs, forth issues to the light, / and sleek with shining youth and newly drest, / wreathing its slippery volumes, towers upright / and, glorying, to the sunbeam rears its breast, / and darts a three-forked tongue, and points a flaming crest."

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