Definitions for prong

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prong prong

Spelling: [prawng, prong]

IPA: /prɔŋ, prɒŋ/

Prong is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in prong (gnopr).

Definitions for prong

noun

1. one of the pointed tines of a fork.
2. any pointed, projecting part, as of an antler.
3. a branch of a stream.
4. Jewelry. a tapering metal projection, usually heavier than a claw, rising from the base of a jewelry setting and used to hold a stone in position as needed. Compare claw (def 7).

verb (used with object)

1. to pierce or stab with or as if with a prong.
2. to supply with prongs.

Origin of prong

1400-50; late Middle English pronge, prange pain, affliction, pointed instrument; akin to Old Swedish prang gorge, narrow street, Middle Low German prange stake, prangen to press, Gothic anap

Examples for prong

And as she walked she met Mr. prong himself, intent on his pastoral business.

But more telling than this is the second prong of the Eastern Lyme Offensive.

In other cases a hook or prong is bent to change the spring tension.

With one prong of a compass in the centre of Hudson Bay, describe a circle.

Had we turned up the other prong we would have frozen to death.

"I'll take the one rubbing his side with his prong," put in Darry.

Rachel I know is obstinate, but mother means well, Mr. prong.

Then one man has a rake too heavy for him, and another a prong too light.

Old muskets fired by a fusee, with a prong to rest the barrel on.

She went, therefore, in her present difficulty to Mr. prong.