Like a pitchfork

Usage examples of pronged.

With huge pronged poles they pitched hissing masses of blubber into the scalding pots, or stirred up the fires beneath, till the snaky flames darted, curling, out of the doors to catch them by the feet.

The folds of tarred cords wrapped around the long hull of the pronged submarine.

AAGE was at the controls, as their pronged craft moved slowly away from the stairs of the cavern of light.

Denning-watched the pronged end rise an inch, fall back and rise again.

Then slowly, as if supported by invisible thread, the fork rose some three feet above the plate, circled twice, then steadied the pronged end pointing straight at his face.

He picked up his pronged staff from where he had rested it against the doorpost and turned back, all his movements stiff and weary.

Rudy left him there, walking slowly back along his own invisible tracks, the double points of his pronged staff winking in the desert starlight.

The steel points of his pronged staff winked faintly in the wan afternoon light.

Renweth, but its pronged, razor-edged crescent could serve as a weapon as well.

A khatvanga consists of a long wand surmounted by the vase of life, a freshly severed head, a decomposing head, a skull and a pronged thunderbolt symbol.

Pilot was back at the binnacle and Torps over beside his pronged sight.

He learned how to lash arch pieces onto pronged posts and to weave more slender rods through these pieces to form semiarches in the other direction.

I longed to shape a tree branch into a pronged trident, to spear a fat wingfish, to fillet it with my overgrown fingernails and suck down the salty meat.

It stopped at a thing in the street like a manhole cover, flipped the cover off with two pronged levers, eased forward and dropped something round and bellowslike over the hole.

The catamarans swept in on either side, throwing grapnels pronged with wood and stone.