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three-pronged

a. Having three prongs or similar parts; trifurcated

Usage examples of "three-pronged".

They are recognized by the Thiefs Scar, which they wear as a caste mark, a tiny, three-pronged brand burned into the face in back of and below the eye, over the right cheekbone.

They are recognized by the Thief's Scar, which they wear as a caste mark, a tiny, three-pronged brand burned into the face in back of and below the eye, over the right cheekbone.

He stopped talking when the three-pronged flash suppressor on an M-16 rifle came to rest on the back of his neck.

Soon, each drawn by two warriors, the anchor-hooks, curved and three-pronged, not unlike large grappling irons, emerged dripping from the mud on the marsh.

A dozen of Black Joke's sailors hurled the three-pronged grappling hooks high over the clipper's gunwale with the lines snaking up after them, and then heaved them up tight and made them fast to the portside cleats, and a swarm of seamen cheering wildly went up Huron, s stern , like a troop of vervet monkeys pursued into the trees by a hunting leopard.

I unrolled my sleeping bag, quite unthinkingly, though I noticed the patches of arrow grass, the familiar three-pronged marsh plant, with its burst points.

All of the foregoing set the stage for a three-pronged, parallelof the British Empire.

The Ska commander, a tall black-haired man in a three-pronged steel helmet and a white cap over the pangolin scales of his armor, stood immobile on the afterdeck and so sank with his ship.

About a capstan were wound the turns of a long wire rope at the end of which was a three-pronged drag-hook.