three-forked

English

Adjective

three-forked (not comparable)

1. Having three forks or prongs.

   Synonym: trifurcate

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

Related terms

• twiforked