The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forkbeard \Fork"beard`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A European fish ( Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.
The European forked hake or hake's-dame ( Phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A European fish (''Raniceps raninus''), having a large flat head. 2 The European forked hake or hake's-dame (''Phycis blennoides'').
Usage examples of "forkbeard".
No wonder women of vanquished, pre-Medieval European countries were attracted to these exceedingly handsome men who carried such fanciful names as Gudrod the Magnificent, Harald Fairhair, Thorfinn the Mighty, Halfdan of the Wide Embrace, Rolf the Marcher, Thorkel the Handsome, Sven Forkbeard and Cnut the Great.
Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish.
Toward the front of the temple, behind the rail, and even at the two doors of the temple, by the great beams which close them, stood the mean of Forkbeard.
There was carving in the passage, rune letterings and pictographs, in linear borders Before the bit of flaring moss turned to a million red pin points the Forkbeard took one of the torches and thrust it to the moss.
In the beginning I had played Forkbeard positionally, learning his game.
Then, to the astonishment of all Torvaldsland, and most to that of Svein Blue Tooth, the Forkbeard, redoubtable, after earning six talmits in the contests, delivered to his hall the very wergild no man had supposed it possible to pay, and had then, arrogantly, before the high seat of the Blue Tooth itself, refused to pay!