forkedadj.

Brit.

/fɔːkt/, U.S.

/fɔrkt/

Etymology: < fork n. + -ed suffix².

a. Having a fork or fork-like end; shaped like a fork, bifurcate, branching.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [adjective] > bifurcated

twiselc1000

forked1398

twisted1398

grained1513

bi-furked?1545

biforked1578

two-forked1579

crotched1587

forken1631

twi-forked1635

bifurcous1656

forky1702

swallow-tailed1726

bidential1730

bifurcate1835

bifurcated1853

bifurcal1861

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xii. xxii. 428 The swalowes..tayles ben forkyd as a payr of sherys.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18843 Forked fair þe chin he bare.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 158 Þat oþere partie of þe veyne passiþ to þe arm hoolis & þere he is forkid.

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 272 A Marchant..with a forked berd.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiii^v He hath a forked sticke a yarde longe.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 306 He was for all the worlde like a forkt reddish with a head fantastically carued vpon it.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 518 Hiss for hiss returnd with forked tongue To forked tongue.

1692 London Gaz. No. 2830/4 Stolen..2 silver Spoons, a Fork, 2 small Spoons forkt.

1729 T. Cooke Tales 40 Forked Light'nings fright the World below.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 53 On two forked sticks with cordage tied, Their pot o'er pilfer'd fuel boils away.

1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 3 A stem is termed forked when it divides into two branches of equal, or nearly equal size.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 24 Arabis..with forked or stellate hairs.

1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 118 Forked tongues are flickering seen.

figurative.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV xvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 5 Thus forked Novelty Spreads.

b. Of a road: Making a fork; having two or more diverging branches.

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the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [adjective]

forked1525

disjoining1530

divaricated1666

divergent1696

diverging1706

trifurcated1727

divaricate1788

trifurcate1811

divaricating1835

forking1850

bifurcated1853

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [adjective]

three-wayeda1382

quadrivial1480

forked1525

two-way1571

three-way1587

two-hand1607

trivial1614

biviousa1644

bisected1794

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. ii. xci. [lxxxvii.] 271 When we had rydden a ii. leages, we came to a forked waye.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) xxxviii. xlv. 1011 At every forked high way leading on both hands.

1633 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata (ed. 2) 114 A forked way or carfax is deceitfull.

1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge iii They came to the forked road.

c. Of a mountain: Divided at the summit, cleft.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > shape

beetlea1586

forkeda1616

scalped1754

montiform1816

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xv. 5 Sometime we see..A forked Mountaine, or blew Promontorie.

a1628 J. Beaumont To Muses 2 in Bosworth Field (1629) 9 Sweet Sounds are raised upon the forked Hill Of high Parnassus.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 34 Yon forked and snowy hill.

†d. of a mitre.

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society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [adjective] > mitre > of mitre: divided at top

forked1509

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxlix No wyse man is desyrous to obtayne The forked cap without he worthy be.

?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors Pref. sig. A4 Banysshed my natyue contry..by the cruelty of the forkyd cappes of Ingland.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 25 She..sends her haughty Prelates from all parts with their forked Miters.

e. Heraldry. = forche adj. (Robson Brit. Her. 1830).

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [adjective] > forked

forked1486

furshe1572

nayed1688

fourché1706

forche1889

1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. c vj a A certan forkyd cros..hit is called forkyd: for as moch as that all thendys of hit ar clouyn and forkyd.

f. Having (a specified number of) forks or prongs, as three-forked.

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1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. ii. 13 A three forked fleshoke.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 35 With toonge three forcked furth spirts fyre.

a1628 F. Greville Treat. Monarchy xv, in Remains (1670) 173 To stirre, or calm the Ocean's race, As Royalties of his [Neptune's] three-forked Mace.

1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 131 Some viper..darting a three-forked flickering tongue.

†g. Of an arrow: Barbed. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [adjective] > barbed

forked1549

fluked1629

1549 C. Stourton Let. 21 June in Wilts. Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Mag. (1864) 8 296 His crosse bow bent and forked arrow in the same.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fer de fleiche à oreilles, a forked or barbed arrowe head.

1673 J. Dryden Assignation iii. i. 24 I am wounded with a forked Arrow, which will not easily be got out.

2. Having the lower half of the body divided; two-legged.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > relating to limbs > two-legged

forked1608

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 98 A poore bare forked Animall as thou art.

1771 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 5 Thee wut come oll a-gerred, and oll horry zo vurs tha art a vorked [= i-forked].

3. Of building: Characterized by the use of ‘forks’ (see fork n. 7).

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [adjective] > manner of construction

forked1792

Airey1945

lift-slab1951

1792 J. Mastin Hist. Naseby 9 Some [houses]..of the most antique architecture, called forked building.

a. Horned; also spec. of deer: see quot. 1674.

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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [adjective] > cusped

forked1605

cornicular1822

cusped1822

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having horns

horneda1400

attired1572

forked1605

cornuted1609

cornigerous1646

corniferous1650

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [adjective] > having antlers

headed?a1425

summeda1425

forked1605

branching1667

beamy1694

antlered1828

branchy1830

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 230 The more she [sc. the Moon] Fills her forked Round.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. i. 347 With fisking traine, with forked head, and foot, Himselfe, th' ayre, th' earth, he beateth.

1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation i. 7 Heads having doubling Croches are called Forked Heads, because the Croches are planted on the top of the Beam like Forks.

b. ‘Horned’, ‘cornuted’, cuckolded. knight of the forked order n. a cuckold.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > husband of adulterous wife

cuckolda1250

cornutoc1430

unicorn1509

hoddypolla1529

summer bird1541

Actaeon1567

knight of the forked order1586

Vulcanian1598

hoddy-doddy1601

becco1604

ram-head1605

cornute1608

horn-stock1611

skimmington1623

horn-heada1640

tup1652

half-moon1659

cuck1706

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [adjective] > adulterous > dishonoured by wife's adultery

forked1586

cornuted1612

horn-mada1616

bugle-broweda1632

horneda1632

horn-beaten1652

hornified1693

grafted1699

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 483 Thou puttest thy selfe in great danger, lest thy rounde head become forked.

1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. E3 Let him dub her husband knight of the forked order.

1639 Mayne City Match in I. Reed Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Plays (1780) IX. 373 And I am fork'd? hum!

1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 95 I should be sure to be dubb'd a Knight of the forked Order.

†5.

a. Of an argument, etc.: That points more than one way; containing a dilemma; ambiguous, equivocal. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [adjective]

double?c1225

uncertainc1384

equivoquea1450

amphibille?1450

ambiguousc1487

indifferent?1531

forked1551

amphibological1587

equivocal1601

double-meaning1605

left-handed1610

dilogical1616

two-edgeda1625

biviousa1644

equivocating1645

amphibolous1647

yea-and-nay1648

amphibolical1652

bifarious1656

double-handed1661

squibbling1674

ambigual1683

equivocous1701

ambiguea1734

double-edged1791

multivocala1834

grey1835

amphibolic1873

ambivalent1923

1551 S. Gardiner Explic. Catholique Fayth f. 80^v What hath this auctor wonne nowe by his forked question?

1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. at Dilemma A forked kinde of argument.

1607 B. Jonson Volpone i. iii. sig. C Giue forked councell; take prouoking gold On eyther hand, and put it vp.

1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 324 To this forked Objection I return these five considerations.

1681 J. Crowne Henry VI i. iv. 46 Must Justice starve, because we want a Lawyers Forked distinctions to feed her neatly with..?

†b. Of a fee: Taken from both parties in a suit.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [adjective] > taken from both parties in a suit

forked1648

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Q6 Ere thy Palm shall know A Postern-bribe tooke, or a Forked-Fee To fetter Justice.

6. Done with a fork.Apparently an isolated use.

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1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. I7 To imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate.

7. elliptical for fork-headed (forked-head n. at Compounds 2) or forked-tailed adj. at Compounds 2.

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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > of tail > having particular shape of tail

forked1674

sharp-tailed1678

forked-tailed1692

fork-tailed1694

scissor-tailed1811

square-tailed1895

the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [adjective] > fork-headed

forked1769

1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation ii. 77 The Forked Kite and bold Buzzard.

1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 158 Lesser Hake..is known on the coast of Cornwall by the name of the greater forked beard, where it was first discovered by Mr. Jago.

1864 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands III. 125 Forked Hake.

Compounds

C1. Parasynthetic and similative.

forked-wise adv.

ΚΠ

1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ii. 26 Chyldren with a clouen ouerlyppe, and forked-wyse, called a Hare lyppe.

C2.

† forked-beard n. Obsolete = fork-beard n. at fork n. Compounds 2a.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > member of genus Phycis (fork-beard)

goatfish1613

forked-bearda1705

hake's dame1823

fork-beard1864

a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) ii. 163 The great Forked-beard.

a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) ii. 164 The lesser Forked-beard.

forked-head n. a forked or barbed arrow, a fork-head.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > barbed arrow

forked-head1574

forker1589

fork-head1590

1574 J. Fortescue in Hist. Fam. of F. (1869) II. 228 Arrows..as well forked-heads as others.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 24 It irkes me the poore dapled fooles..Should..with forked heads Haue their round hanches goard.

forked lightning n. lightning visible in the form of a zigzag or branching line across the sky; (now literary) a lightning flash of this form.ⓘ

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning > specific types

fireball1611

forked lightning1611

summer lightning1679

ball of fire1684

thunder-ball1686

sheet lightning1794

wildfirea1831

heat-lightning1834

globular lightning1843

ribbon lightning1888

beaded lightning1889

bead lightning1899

1611 B. Jonson Catiline iii. sig. G2 They could haue wrought by nobler waies: haue strooke Thy foes with forked lightning; or ramm'd thunder.

1735 S. Bowden Poet. Ess. II. 97 The forked Lightnings..From thy dread Arm with pointed Fury fly, And ting'd with ruddy Vengeance sweep the Sky.

1835 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xiv. in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 789/2 The forked lightning crankled out every now and then clear and bright.

1879 I. L. Bird Lady's Life Rocky Mtns. vii. 97 From it [sc. Long's Peak] come all storms of snow and wind, and the forked lightnings play around its head like a glory.

1949 D. Smith I Capture Castle (1995) iv. 40 It is as if she is egging the weather on, wanting louder claps of thunder and positively encouraging forked lightning.

2002 H. Kunzru Impressionist (2003) 9 As the wind tugs at his topi and forked lightning divides the sky into fleeting segments, he is struck by the thought that perhaps he has been a fool.

forked-tail adj. = forked-tailed adj.

ΚΠ

1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 621 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI Only two other birds he knew perform such a feat, the forked-tail hawk and the swift or chimney swallow.

forked-tailed adj. having a forked tail; esp. in the names of birds (cf. fork-tailed adj. at fork-tail adj. and n. Derivatives).

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective] > relating to the tail > having a tail > having a forked tail

forked-tailed1556

fork-tail1611

fork-tailed1694

the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > of tail > having particular shape of tail

forked1674

sharp-tailed1678

forked-tailed1692

fork-tailed1694

scissor-tailed1811

square-tailed1895

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxxi. 95 A sorte of forkte tailde flise.

1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 141 The forkt-tailed Kite.

1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds III. 520 The Forked-tailed Petrel.

Derivatives

ˈforkedly adv. in a forked manner.

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the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adverb] > in forked manner

forkedly1603

furcately1846

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [adverb] > cleft or bifurcated

forkedly1603

bifidly1849

1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. E4 Tongues forkedly cut.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VI. ix. 46 Sally..snapt her fingers at me, and pointing two of each hand forkedly at me, bid me remember the lines.

1881 A. J. Duffield tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. 555 [She] flung her body..across the saddle, and remained forkedly, as if she had been a man.

ˈforkedness n. the condition of being forked.

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the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [noun] > condition of being forked

forkedness1611

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun] > bifurcation > condition of

forkedness1611

forkiness1611

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fourcheure,..forkednesse.

a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1692) III. i. 601 The forkedness of the Arrows.

1774 G. White Let. 29 Jan. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 171 Distinguished..by the length and forkedness of their tails.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	forked
释义	forkedadj. Brit. /fɔːkt/, U.S. /fɔrkt/ Etymology: < fork n. + -ed suffix². 1. a. Having a fork or fork-like end; shaped like a fork, bifurcate, branching. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [adjective] > bifurcated twiselc1000 forked1398 twisted1398 grained1513 bi-furked?1545 biforked1578 two-forked1579 crotched1587 forken1631 twi-forked1635 bifurcous1656 forky1702 swallow-tailed1726 bidential1730 bifurcate1835 bifurcated1853 bifurcal1861 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xii. xxii. 428 The swalowes..tayles ben forkyd as a payr of sherys. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18843 Forked fair þe chin he bare. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 158 Þat oþere partie of þe veyne passiþ to þe arm hoolis & þere he is forkid. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 272 A Marchant..with a forked berd. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiii^v He hath a forked sticke a yarde longe. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 306 He was for all the worlde like a forkt reddish with a head fantastically carued vpon it. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 518 Hiss for hiss returnd with forked tongue To forked tongue. View more context for this quotation 1692 London Gaz. No. 2830/4 Stolen..2 silver Spoons, a Fork, 2 small Spoons forkt. 1729 T. Cooke Tales 40 Forked Light'nings fright the World below. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 53 On two forked sticks with cordage tied, Their pot o'er pilfer'd fuel boils away. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 3 A stem is termed forked when it divides into two branches of equal, or nearly equal size. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 24 Arabis..with forked or stellate hairs. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 118 Forked tongues are flickering seen. figurative.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV xvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 5 Thus forked Novelty Spreads. b. Of a road: Making a fork; having two or more diverging branches. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [adjective] forked1525 disjoining1530 divaricated1666 divergent1696 diverging1706 trifurcated1727 divaricate1788 trifurcate1811 divaricating1835 forking1850 bifurcated1853 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [adjective] three-wayeda1382 quadrivial1480 forked1525 two-way1571 three-way1587 two-hand1607 trivial1614 biviousa1644 bisected1794 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. ii. xci. [lxxxvii.] 271 When we had rydden a ii. leages, we came to a forked waye. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) xxxviii. xlv. 1011 At every forked high way leading on both hands. 1633 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata (ed. 2) 114 A forked way or carfax is deceitfull. 1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge iii They came to the forked road. c. Of a mountain: Divided at the summit, cleft. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > shape beetlea1586 forkeda1616 scalped1754 montiform1816 a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xv. 5 Sometime we see..A forked Mountaine, or blew Promontorie. View more context for this quotation a1628 J. Beaumont To Muses 2 in Bosworth Field (1629) 9 Sweet Sounds are raised upon the forked Hill Of high Parnassus. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 34 Yon forked and snowy hill. †d. of a mitre. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [adjective] > mitre > of mitre: divided at top forked1509 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxlix No wyse man is desyrous to obtayne The forked cap without he worthy be. ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors Pref. sig. A4 Banysshed my natyue contry..by the cruelty of the forkyd cappes of Ingland. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 25 She..sends her haughty Prelates from all parts with their forked Miters. e. Heraldry. = forche adj. (Robson Brit. Her. 1830). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [adjective] > forked forked1486 furshe1572 nayed1688 fourché1706 forche1889 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. c vj a A certan forkyd cros..hit is called forkyd: for as moch as that all thendys of hit ar clouyn and forkyd. f. Having (a specified number of) forks or prongs, as three-forked. ΚΠ 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. ii. 13 A three forked fleshoke. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 35 With toonge three forcked furth spirts fyre. a1628 F. Greville Treat. Monarchy xv, in Remains (1670) 173 To stirre, or calm the Ocean's race, As Royalties of his [Neptune's] three-forked Mace. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 131 Some viper..darting a three-forked flickering tongue. †g. Of an arrow: Barbed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [adjective] > barbed forked1549 fluked1629 1549 C. Stourton Let. 21 June in Wilts. Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Mag. (1864) 8 296 His crosse bow bent and forked arrow in the same. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fer de fleiche à oreilles, a forked or barbed arrowe head. 1673 J. Dryden Assignation iii. i. 24 I am wounded with a forked Arrow, which will not easily be got out. 2. Having the lower half of the body divided; two-legged. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > relating to limbs > two-legged forked1608 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 98 A poore bare forked Animall as thou art. View more context for this quotation 1771 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 5 Thee wut come oll a-gerred, and oll horry zo vurs tha art a vorked [= i-forked]. 3. Of building: Characterized by the use of ‘forks’ (see fork n. 7). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [adjective] > manner of construction forked1792 Airey1945 lift-slab1951 1792 J. Mastin Hist. Naseby 9 Some [houses]..of the most antique architecture, called forked building. 4. a. Horned; also spec. of deer: see quot. 1674. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [adjective] > cusped forked1605 cornicular1822 cusped1822 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having horns horneda1400 attired1572 forked1605 cornuted1609 cornigerous1646 corniferous1650 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [adjective] > having antlers headed?a1425 summeda1425 forked1605 branching1667 beamy1694 antlered1828 branchy1830 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 230 The more she [sc. the Moon] Fills her forked Round. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. i. 347 With fisking traine, with forked head, and foot, Himselfe, th' ayre, th' earth, he beateth. 1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation i. 7 Heads having doubling Croches are called Forked Heads, because the Croches are planted on the top of the Beam like Forks. b. ‘Horned’, ‘cornuted’, cuckolded. knight of the forked order n. a cuckold. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > husband of adulterous wife cuckolda1250 cornutoc1430 unicorn1509 hoddypolla1529 summer bird1541 Actaeon1567 knight of the forked order1586 Vulcanian1598 hoddy-doddy1601 becco1604 ram-head1605 cornute1608 horn-stock1611 skimmington1623 horn-heada1640 tup1652 half-moon1659 cuck1706 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [adjective] > adulterous > dishonoured by wife's adultery forked1586 cornuted1612 horn-mada1616 bugle-broweda1632 horneda1632 horn-beaten1652 hornified1693 grafted1699 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 483 Thou puttest thy selfe in great danger, lest thy rounde head become forked. 1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. E3 Let him dub her husband knight of the forked order. 1639 Mayne City Match in I. Reed Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Plays (1780) IX. 373 And I am fork'd? hum! 1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 95 I should be sure to be dubb'd a Knight of the forked Order. †5. a. Of an argument, etc.: That points more than one way; containing a dilemma; ambiguous, equivocal. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [adjective] double?c1225 uncertainc1384 equivoquea1450 amphibille?1450 ambiguousc1487 indifferent?1531 forked1551 amphibological1587 equivocal1601 double-meaning1605 left-handed1610 dilogical1616 two-edgeda1625 biviousa1644 equivocating1645 amphibolous1647 yea-and-nay1648 amphibolical1652 bifarious1656 double-handed1661 squibbling1674 ambigual1683 equivocous1701 ambiguea1734 double-edged1791 multivocala1834 grey1835 amphibolic1873 ambivalent1923 1551 S. Gardiner Explic. Catholique Fayth f. 80^v What hath this auctor wonne nowe by his forked question? 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. at Dilemma A forked kinde of argument. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone i. iii. sig. C Giue forked councell; take prouoking gold On eyther hand, and put it vp. 1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 324 To this forked Objection I return these five considerations. 1681 J. Crowne Henry VI i. iv. 46 Must Justice starve, because we want a Lawyers Forked distinctions to feed her neatly with..? †b. Of a fee: Taken from both parties in a suit. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [adjective] > taken from both parties in a suit forked1648 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Q6 Ere thy Palm shall know A Postern-bribe tooke, or a Forked-Fee To fetter Justice. 6. Done with a fork.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. I7 To imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate. 7. elliptical for fork-headed (forked-head n. at Compounds 2) or forked-tailed adj. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > of tail > having particular shape of tail forked1674 sharp-tailed1678 forked-tailed1692 fork-tailed1694 scissor-tailed1811 square-tailed1895 the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [adjective] > fork-headed forked1769 1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation ii. 77 The Forked Kite and bold Buzzard. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 158 Lesser Hake..is known on the coast of Cornwall by the name of the greater forked beard, where it was first discovered by Mr. Jago. 1864 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands III. 125 Forked Hake. Compounds C1. Parasynthetic and similative. forked-wise adv. ΚΠ 1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ii. 26 Chyldren with a clouen ouerlyppe, and forked-wyse, called a Hare lyppe. C2. † forked-beard n. Obsolete = fork-beard n. at fork n. Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > member of genus Phycis (fork-beard) goatfish1613 forked-bearda1705 hake's dame1823 fork-beard1864 a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) ii. 163 The great Forked-beard. a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) ii. 164 The lesser Forked-beard. forked-head n. a forked or barbed arrow, a fork-head. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > barbed arrow forked-head1574 forker1589 fork-head1590 1574 J. Fortescue in Hist. Fam. of F. (1869) II. 228 Arrows..as well forked-heads as others. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 24 It irkes me the poore dapled fooles..Should..with forked heads Haue their round hanches goard. View more context for this quotation forked lightning n. lightning visible in the form of a zigzag or branching line across the sky; (now literary) a lightning flash of this form.ⓘ ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning > specific types fireball1611 forked lightning1611 summer lightning1679 ball of fire1684 thunder-ball1686 sheet lightning1794 wildfirea1831 heat-lightning1834 globular lightning1843 ribbon lightning1888 beaded lightning1889 bead lightning1899 1611 B. Jonson Catiline iii. sig. G2 They could haue wrought by nobler waies: haue strooke Thy foes with forked lightning; or ramm'd thunder. 1735 S. Bowden Poet. Ess. II. 97 The forked Lightnings..From thy dread Arm with pointed Fury fly, And ting'd with ruddy Vengeance sweep the Sky. 1835 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xiv. in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 789/2 The forked lightning crankled out every now and then clear and bright. 1879 I. L. Bird Lady's Life Rocky Mtns. vii. 97 From it [sc. Long's Peak] come all storms of snow and wind, and the forked lightnings play around its head like a glory. 1949 D. Smith I Capture Castle (1995) iv. 40 It is as if she is egging the weather on, wanting louder claps of thunder and positively encouraging forked lightning. 2002 H. Kunzru Impressionist (2003) 9 As the wind tugs at his topi and forked lightning divides the sky into fleeting segments, he is struck by the thought that perhaps he has been a fool. forked-tail adj. = forked-tailed adj. ΚΠ 1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 621 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI Only two other birds he knew perform such a feat, the forked-tail hawk and the swift or chimney swallow. forked-tailed adj. having a forked tail; esp. in the names of birds (cf. fork-tailed adj. at fork-tail adj. and n. Derivatives). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective] > relating to the tail > having a tail > having a forked tail forked-tailed1556 fork-tail1611 fork-tailed1694 the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > of tail > having particular shape of tail forked1674 sharp-tailed1678 forked-tailed1692 fork-tailed1694 scissor-tailed1811 square-tailed1895 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxxi. 95 A sorte of forkte tailde flise. 1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 141 The forkt-tailed Kite. 1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds III. 520 The Forked-tailed Petrel. Derivatives ˈforkedly adv. in a forked manner. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adverb] > in forked manner forkedly1603 furcately1846 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [adverb] > cleft or bifurcated forkedly1603 bifidly1849 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. E4 Tongues forkedly cut. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VI. ix. 46 Sally..snapt her fingers at me, and pointing two of each hand forkedly at me, bid me remember the lines. 1881 A. J. Duffield tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. 555 [She] flung her body..across the saddle, and remained forkedly, as if she had been a man. ˈforkedness n. the condition of being forked. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [noun] > condition of being forked forkedness1611 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun] > bifurcation > condition of forkedness1611 forkiness1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fourcheure,..forkednesse. a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1692) III. i. 601 The forkedness of the Arrows. 1774 G. White Let. 29 Jan. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 171 Distinguished..by the length and forkedness of their tails. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1398
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