Definitions for prongs

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prongs prong

Spelling: [prawng, prong]

IPA: /prɔŋ, prɒŋ/

Prongs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in prongs (gnoprs).

Definitions for prongs

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 prongs

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 prongs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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