Definitions for pronged

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pronged pronged

Spelling: [prawngd, prongd]

IPA: /prɔŋd, prɒŋd/

Pronged is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in pronged (degnopr).

Definitions for pronged

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).

adjective

1. having prongs (often used in combination):

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of pronged

First recorded in 1760-70; prong + -ed³

Examples for pronged

They run ort as tho Satun hisself was arter them with a red hot ten pronged pitchfork.

But it dodges out again like a wire worm through a three pronged fork.

The pronged salmon spear is driven into the fleshy shoulders of the fish, when it is hauled out on to the bank.

These rods were pronged branches, sometimes of willow, but preferably of witch-hazel or wild cherry.

Not a word was said; but as they advanced the troops opened fire with their jingalls and darted their pronged spears at them.

A couple of pronged sticks are driven into the ground to serve as props for a horizontal bar.

Even in the wild fly there is a three pronged mark on the thorax present in many individuals.

With a pronged implement that they had given him, he set to work to mash the food into as soft a mass as possible.

The man in the punt was busy catching eels with a pronged pole, tipped with iron.

Its jaws, pronged like antlers, projected two yards before its huge, faceted eyes.